by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Our translations: FRE
Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly, Sae loud and shrill 's I hear the blast — I'm sure it 's winter fairly ! Refrain : Up in the morning 's no for me, Up in the morning early ! When a' the hills are cover'd wi' snaw, I'm sure it is winter fairly. The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A' day they fare but sparely; And lang 's the night frae e'en to morn — I'm sure it's winter fairly. Refrain
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Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Cambridge edition, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1897, page 206.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Up in the morning early" [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) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Up in the morning early", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Twenty-one songs, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), "Up in the morning early", Hob.XXXIa:28ter, JHWXXXII/3 no. 252 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), "A Winter's Morning", 2008, published 2008, copyright © 2008 [ soprano and piano ], Novello & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Scottish (Scots), adapted by John Hamilton [an adaptation] ; composed by Joseph Haydn.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Se lever de bon matin", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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