by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Language: English
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Rescue my castle before the hot day Brightens to blue from its silvery grey, Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say; Many's the friend there, will listen and pray God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay, "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay, Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array: Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay, Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" Who? My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay, Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay! I've better counsellors; what counsel they? Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
H. Sarson sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), "Boot and Saddle", appears in Bells and Pomegranates, in Cavalier Tunes, no. 3, first published 1842 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Boot and saddle", published 1898 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gena Branscombe (1881 - 1977), "Boot and saddle", published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Redgewell Dansie , "Boot and saddle", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Cavalier Tunes by Robert Browning [sung text not yet checked]
- by Brian Blyth Daubney (b. 1929), "Boot and saddle", 1958 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman Frank Demuth (1898 - 1968), "Boot and saddle", published 1930 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Drakeford , "Boot and saddle", published 1929 [ voice and piano ], from Three Cavalier Tunes by Robert Browning [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Dyson (1883 - 1964), "Boot, saddle, to horse and away!", published 1922 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Easson (1895 - ?), "Boot, saddle, to horse and away!", published 1949 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Colin Hand (1929 - 2015), "Boot and saddle", published 1954 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Allan Greenway Harrison (1885 - 1963), "Boot, saddle, to horse and away", published 1930 [ tenor or baritone and piano ], from Four Cavalier Tunes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothea Hollins (flourished 1935), "Boot and saddle", published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Kobbé (1857 - 1918), "To horse!", published 1887 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930), "A Cavalier Song", published 1925 [ 2-part chorus with piano ], 2-part round in Folk Songs and Art Songs for Intermediate Grades, Book 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Boot, saddle, to horse", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by C. H. Reed , "Cavalier Song" [ high voice and piano ], from Twelve songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Boot and saddle", published 1900 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hilda May Sarson (1901? - 1958), "Cavalier Song", published 1933, stanzas 1-3 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Boot, saddle, to horse and away", 1880, published 1893 [ baritone, TTBB chorus, and piano ], from Three Cavalier Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Robert Stratton (1897 - 1954), "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away", published 1929 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Wills (b. 1926), "Boot and saddle", published 1970 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-06
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Word count: 113