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  WT2011 

 
Whistle, daughter, whistle


words and tune traditional English

 
arranged by Douglas Cook

for soprano, alto, tenor and bass chorus



SATB  performance time approx  1m 45s











Arranger's note



This is a fun piece about a young girl who is impatient to get married.  Her mother preaches caution, and holds out the prospect of owning sheep and cows instead, but this doesn't go down very well with the daughter.


It can work very well with soloists playing the parts of mother and daughter, in which case the other soprano and alto voices take the accompanying 'ah's and 'da dum's, etc.  'Ah' can be replaced by 'ooh' if you need to reduce the volume of the accompaniment.


The pause before the girl starts whistling should convey her astonishment that her mother is finally giving her a chance to be married.  She whistles tentatively at first but then with growing confidence. 
















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 Words 





Whistle, daughter, whistle



'Mother I long to get married, I long to be a bride,

I long to be with that young man, for ever by his side,

For ever by his side, o how happy I should be,

For I'm young and merry and o so weary of my virginity'.


'Daughter, I was twenty before that I was wooed,

And many a long and lonesome mile I carried my maidenhood'.

'Oh mother that my well be but it's not the case with me,

For I'm young and merry and o so weary of my virginity!'


'Whistle, daughter, whistle and you shall have a sheep'.

'I cannot whistle mother, but I can sadly weep.

My maidenhood does grieve me, it fills my heart with fear,

For it is a burden, a heavy burden, it's more than I can bear'.


'Whistle, daughter, whistle and you shall have a cow'.

'I cannot whistle mother, indeed I know not how.

My maidenhood does grieve me, it fills my heart with fear,

For it is a burden, a heavy burden, it's more than I can bear'.


'Whistle, daughter, whistle and you shall have a man'.

(…whistles...)		'You see how well I can!'

'You nasty impudent jade, what makes you whistle now?'

'Oh, I'd rather whistle for a man than either sheep or cow!'


traditional English song













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