The silver tassie | The soldier's adieu | Go fetch to me a pint o' wine

by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine

Language: Scottish (Scots)

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
  And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
  A service to my bonie lassie:
The boat rocks at the Pier o' Lieth,
  Fu' loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry,
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,
  And I maun leave my bony Mary.

The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
  The glittering spears are ranked steady,
The shouts o' war are heard afar,
  The battle closes deep and bloody.
It 's not the roar o' sea or shore,
  Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o' war that 's heard afar -
  It's leaving thee, my bony Mary!

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "The silver tassie" [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 Henry Hugo Pierson (1816 - 1873), as Henry Hugo Pearson, "The soldier's adieu", published 1842 [ voice and piano ], from 6 Lieder von Freiligrath nach R. Burns, no. 2, Leipzig, Kistner, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Go fetch to me a pint o' wine", 1885, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs by Robert Burns, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810 - 1876) , no title, appears in Gedichte, in Robert Burns. Elf Lieder [later 13 Lieder], no. 1 ; composed by Robert Franz, Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, Henry Hugo Pierson, as Henry Hugo Pearson.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879) ; composed by Wilhelm Sturm.

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