WT2015
Come buy my cherries
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
performance time approx 2m 30s (if continued until last part to enter has sung whole piece through)
anonymous four-part round for equal or mixed voices
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Come buy my cherries
This piece is the first in the set
Jane Chattock rounds
The next piece is
Come hither boy
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Come buy my cherries individually using the link on this page.
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).
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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