canasg choral music publishing - Come buy my cherries

WT 2015

Come buy my cherries

anonymous four-part round for equal or mixed voices

SATB performance time approx 2'30 (if continued until last part to enter has sung whole piece through)

from

Jane Chattock's book of rounds

Editor's note

This charming round, based on Dublin street cries, is one of many found in a small music manuscript book inscribed with the name of Jane Chattock. The book, which came to light in a second-hand bookshop in Edinburgh, is dated November 1832, and the entries are in many different hands, suggesting that Jane invited friends and visitors to add rounds to her collection.

Other rounds from Jane Chattock's book include: Come hither boy; Che pena ch'affanno ('What a nuisance') and The sweet delights of love (all published by Canasg).

Music

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Words

Come buy my cherries

Come buy my cherries, beauteous lasses,
Fresh from the garden, picked by me.
All on a summer's day so gay you hear the Dublin cries:
Knives ground here by me.

Fine apples and choice pears:
Come, boys, forget your cares.
All on a summer's day so gay you hear the Dublin cries:
Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep.

Fruit in abundance sold by me,
Fruit in abundance here you see.
All on a summer's day so gay you hear the Dublin cries:
Fine parsnips, fine carrots and choice beans.

Whey, fine sweet whey.
Come, taste my whey.
All on a summer's day so gay you hear the Dublin cries:
Fine radish, fine lettuce sold by me.

Anon.

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