by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough
Language: English
Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough The land and not the sea, And leave the soldiers at their drill, And all about the idle hill Shepherd your sheep with me. Oh stay with company and mirth And daylight and the air; Too full already is the grave Of fellows that were good and brave And died because they were.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, no. 38, first published 1922 [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 John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Oh Stay At Home, My Lad", op. 587 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Russell , "Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough", 1973 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from The Ludlow Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-08-18
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