Treble solo, SATB choir,
and piano
SKU:
MN.CH-1393
Composed
by Gregg Smith. 21st
Century. Octavo.
Laurendale Associates
#CH-1393. Published by
Laurendale Associates
(MN.CH-1393).
UPC:
765844006666.
English.
Waly, Waly
is a well known
Applachian folksong The
water is wide and is a
traditional English
melody associated with
the song O Waly, Waly,
gin love be bony, the
words of which most
likely date back to
Ramsay's Tea Table
Miscellany (1724-1732),
and as the setting for a
folk ballad about Jamie
Douglas. The imagery of
the lyrics describes the
challenges of love: Love
is planted, there it
grows; however, as time
progresses, when it is
old it groweth cold. Even
true love, the lyrics
say, fades away like
morning dew. Many
different versions of the
lyrics exist and in 1906
Cecil Sharp consolidated
and named The Water Is
Wide from multiple older
sources in southern
England.