Trade winds (Masefield, set by (J. Frederick Keel, Samuel R. Lewis, Humphrey Procter-Gregg, Tom Vernon Ritchie)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by John Masefield (1878 - 1967)

Trade winds

Language: English

Available translation(s): SPA

In the harbour, in the island, in the Spanish seas,
Are the tiny white houses and the orange trees,
And day-long, night-long, the cool and pleasant breeze
  Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.

There is the red wine, the nutty Spanish ale,
The shuffle of the dancers, and the old salt's tale,
The squeaking fiddle, and the soughing in the sail
  Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.

and o'nights there's the fire-flies and the yellow moon,
And in the ghostly palm trees the sleepy tune
Of the quiet voice calling me, the long low croon
  Of the steady Trade Winds blowing.

First published in Outlook (October 1901)

Authorship

by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Trade winds", appears in Salt Water Ballads, first published 1902 [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 J. Frederick Keel (1871 - 1954), "Trade winds", published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Three Salt-Water Ballads, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Samuel R. Lewis , "Trade winds", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Trade winds" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Tom Vernon Ritchie (b. 1922), "Trade winds" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Gordon P. Briggs

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 101