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Dominick Argento

Winter, from Six Elizabethan Songs   Play

Rachel Schutz Soprano
Jonathan Korth Piano

Recorded on 12/04/2013, uploaded on 06/25/2014

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Winter

William Shakespeare

When icicles hang by the wall

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,

And Tom bears logs into the hall,

And milk comes frozen home in pail;

When blood is nipt and ways be foul,

Then nightly sings the staring owl:

Tu-who! Tu-whit! Tu-who! -- A merry note!

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

 

When all aloud the wind doth blow,

And coughing drowns the parson's saw,

And birds sit brooding in the snow,

 

And Marian's nose looks red and raw;

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl

Then nightly sings the staring owl:

Tu-who! Tu-whit! Tu-who! -- A merry note!

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.