O men from the fields, Come gently within, Tread softly, softly, O men, coming in... [For]1 [m'mhurnin]2 is going From me and from you Where Mary will fold him With mantle of blue, From reek of the smoke And cold of the floor And [peering]3 of things Across the half-door. O men from the fields, Softly, softly come through; Mary puts round him Her mantle of blue.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 omitted by Coulthard and Moeran
2 pronounce - "ma-vourn-yeen" (editor's note); Coulthard, Moeran, and Weigl substitute in "Mavourneen"
3 Moeran: "the peering"
Text Authorship:
- by Padraic Colum (1881 - 1972), "A cradle song", appears in Wild Earth, first published 1907 [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 James Angel , "A cradle song", published 1949 [ 2-part chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Cradle Song", 1918?, published 1922 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Three Irish Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Brand (1913 - 1953), "O, men from the fields", <<1943 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "Mantle of blue", 1918, published 1919 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Cradle Song", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charlotte Cadoret , "Cradle song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906 - 2005), "O, men from the fields", published 1961 [ voice or unison chorus and piano or organ ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "A cradle song", 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Six Irish Songs for Maureen, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916 - 2001), "Cradle song" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a score [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edgar Martin Deale (1902 - 1999), "O, men from the fields", 1967 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Martin Deale (1902 - 1999), "O, men from the fields", 1968 [ SATB chorus and piccolo ], from Padraic Colum: Four Facets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Martin Deale (1902 - 1999), "O, men from the fields", published 1973 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by James Richard Dear (1870 - ?), "Tread softly", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by John William Duarte (b. 1919), "A cradle song", published 1951 [ high voice and classical guitar ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul N. Edmonds (b. 1873), "Cradle song", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "A cradle song", 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), "Cradle song", 1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolph Ganz (1877 - 1972), "Cradle song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A cradle song", op. 127 (A Book of Five Songs) no. 3 (1938) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Herbert) Hamilton Harty, Sir (1879 - 1941), "Cradle song", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Hind , "A cradle song", published 1951 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "O men from the fields", c1920 [ voice and piano ], fragment [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Hughes (1882 - 1937), "O men from the fields", subtitle: "A cradle song", <<1937 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernest L. Lodge , "The mantle of blue", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by H. Raymond Loughborough (d. 1967), "O, men from the fields", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul McIntyre , "Cradle song", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "Mantle of blue", R. 111 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Dorothy Parke , "A cradle song", published 1963 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Barbara Pentland (b. 1912), "A cradle song", 1938 [ four-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "A Cradle Song", op. 86 (1945) [ voice and piano ], from Two Quiet Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "A Cradle Song", op. 284 (1951) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "O Men from the Fields", op. 573 (1960) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "Cradle song", op. 8 (Four Songs) no. 1 (1923) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Sheldon , "Cradle song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alan Burrage Stout (b. 1932), "Cradle song" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul W. Sweetman , "Lullaby", published 1962 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Joseph Thomas (1894 - ?), "O, men from the fields", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kenneth Tod , "Cradle song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "O, men from the fields", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Watson Weaver (b. 1903), "Cradle song", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "A cradle song", 1941, copyright © 1946 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "A cradle song", published 1957 [ 2-part chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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