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Shaxpur Score:
(mp3s, lyrics, sheet music, & playable FinaleNotePad files)

On A Dream, Anne mp3
​Sixpence Song mp3
Sweetwood Aire mp3


Shaxpur Score mp3​  (audio demo of 10 songs)

Below is the Shaxpur Score mp3 running order:
(Each song is a link to its pdf sheet music; lyrics follow. The links at the extreme page bottom are playable FinaleNotePad sheet music files.) 
On a Dream, Anne
Road to the High Countrie
Robin Green
Sixpence Song
Are Ye Waiting?
Bridge Theme
Stratford Song
Travellers’ Hymn
Queen’s Theme
Sweetwood Aire

On A Dream, Anne © Sandy Rapp 1972
Will you come with me to another time;
Will you drink with me of a different wine;
Will you take my fortune and believe it’s thine,
On A Dream, Anne?
 
Will you hear the clatter on the cobblestone;
Will you taste the fishes and the baker’s scone;
Can you listen to a wish; can you find your home
On A Dream, Anne?
 
Can you wake each morning’ to a richer day;
Can you hold each hour in a newborn way;
Can you catch the wind in a web of
Come what may?
 
Can you live the poem that the poets tell;
Can you love me better than the wishin’ well;
Can you trade the summer and the curfew bell
For A Dream, Anne?
 
 I’ll see the way. I’ll make the way.
 
I can build us a lane from the clover chain;
I can carve us a carriage from a cart of hay.
I can tease the wind to a giant steed;
And I’ve got the wind and the wind is all I need.
 
Will you come with me to another time;
Will you drink with me of a different wine;
Will you take my fortune and believe it’s thine,
On A Dream, Anne ? On A Dream, Anne,
On A Dream, Anne.

​Road to the High Countrie © Sandy Rapp 1972
They come, they come, a whistle an’ a drum and
Bound to the table I be.
And I’m merry well met with a dinner an’ a bed
On the Road to the High Countrie.
 
Sing to the piper, one, two, three,
And for the babe o’ Mary.
Hi thee, hi thee, isn’t it a lovely
Road to the High Countrie?​

Robin Green © Sandy Rapp 1972
Remember thee one Robin Green,
He sang a merry song.
He reveled high the eventide and
All the goodnight long.
 
When first he came to London town
‘Twould shake the solid ground;
He’d empty out a yard of stout and
Stand another round.
 
He’d call the keeper to his side:
Young man, forget thy bed,
This night we’ll rise in revel cries
To wake the very dead.
 
Repeat chorus
 
He’d love the ladies all he could
And wooed ‘em one and all.
He’d kiss the maidens when he would
‘Twas marvelous to tell.
 
He’d one to stand at either hand
And one to fetch him drink,
And one to be at either knee
And one for other things.
 
Repeat chorus
 
Landlord, keep thy coffers filled and
Bring the whiskey on.
We’ll never leave a single gill to
See the light o’ dawn.
 
And come to me, my fiddlers three
To bow our jolly scene.
Tonight’s the night we raise our pint to
Merry Robin Green. ~ Repeat chorus

​
Sixpence Song © Sandy Rapp 1972
Son, I give thee sixpence,
A penny for you thoughts.
A penny if I’m in ‘em and a farthing if I’m not.
Put it in your pocket; save it for a day.
Take it to the market; spend it on the way.
 
Chorus
Never saw the use for money in the hand
I brighten the world up when I can.
I never lost the love o’ the river and the rain;
Over the Avon, home again.
 
Son, I give thee thrupence,
A penny for the stage.
And if it’s mine I’ll make it thine
the day you come of age.
Should you tell your mother I sold it out to thee.
She’ll slit my throat and buy a boat
and sink me in the sea.
 
Repeat chorus
 
Son, I give the tupence, a penny for the rain,
The valley low, the tally-ho,
the huntin’ o’ the game.
Should there come a time, son,
You break your heart in two,
The country dew will make it new
An’ gi’ it back to you.
 
Repeat chorus

Are Ye Waiting? © Sandy Rapp 1972
​Note - all 3 verses are to be sung in counterpoint at the end

Ring of roses, Majesty,
Lilly white, lily white, for thee.
Come the piper, Majesty,
We sing for England and for thee.
 
Chorus
Are Ye Waiting, Majesty?
Merrily, merrily, and for thee.
Be ye dressed in gold and green?
Verily, verily for my Queen.
 
How to get a countess wed,
It’s not a task so easily set upon,
And the countess sooner dead,
She’s not a match in Christendom.
 
Repeat Chorus

Strike the cymbal, sound the horn, what the
Earl needs now is a jolly good kingdom;
And to the was Essex born,
For a king, England.
 
Repeat Chorus
 
Repeat all 3 verses together counterpoint

Repeat Chorus


Bridge Theme © Sandy Rapp 1972
We are the seers of thine age,
The prophets of thy time.
We break our bread beside thy waters;
Upon thy shore we dink the wine.
 
Join our party if thou canst,
Thine aging soul to purge.
All the rules are in the tablets;
All the souls are in our charge.
 
3rd verse not used in production:
There is no star amongst the dying;
No daylight with the dead.
Thy sins are laid upon the rostrum;
Thy loves are weighed upon thy head.

And when unto the water’s edge
The weary travelers rode.
They bade the prophets leave and Godspeed:
The way is dark, we cannot go.​

​Stratford Song © Sandy Rapp 1972
The sun shines bright enough in Stratford;
Comes a light rain down on a green grass town
There be flowers enough in Stratford
For thine eye.
 
Turn thine eye to the wild rose;
Turn thine eye; she’ll be bloomin’
from the valley to the sea.
And the pride o’ the kingdom she’ll be.
 
There’s a lot to say for Stratford,
But a man grows stale
As the days grow long, and
Longs for the rustle as the boys go marchin’ on.
 
And they die, for the kingdom.
And they strive
For the honor and the glory of the Queen.
And they love what an England she’s been.​
​
Travellers’ Hymn © Sandy Rapp 1972
Now the leaves are gatherin’ round us;
Gone the white sun down;
And the festal fire is burnin’,
Come the travellers welcome home.
 
Jesus in our hearts be flowin’
Like the river down.
That he bad his farmer growin’:
Bear thy joyful harvest home.
 
Sons and daughters, friends and neighbors,
To the board come round.
Thanks be given for this thy favor;
Voices sing: they will be done.​
 
The Queen’s Theme © Sandy Rapp 1972
I would hear the secret now,
Ah, but the keeper lies a sleepin’,
I would listen, I would know.
 
I would see the answer now,
Beyond the night and nightly watch I’m keeping’,
But for the shadows, but for the cold.
 
Ere I hear the morning’ church bells ring,
I would know some dear and whispered thing,
I would hear some earthbound angel sing
From the shadows and the cold.
 
Are you there for only God to see?
Are you prisoner to some infinity?
Could a prayer reach out and set you free?
 
Come ye back, if for a day,
If for an hour, before the sands are run.
There’s more to love, and more to hold,
And be it loved, and be it golden,
 
I  would know, before these sands are run,
If for an hour, before the end is come;
Tell me know, before the psalms are sung,
For I would listen; for I would listen,
And I would know.

​Sweetwood Aire © Sandy Rapp 1972
Oh a man came a singin’ o’ the High Countrie
Wi’ a hey, ho, nonny, nonny, nonny, no;
And a merry, merry man was he;
All for a song was he, ho.
 
An’ he went from town to town
His sweetwood down upon his knee.
There was none from all aroun’ could
Match his balladry.
And we’d all be a drinkin’ to the break o’ day
Wi’ a hey, ho, nonny, nonny, nonny, no;
He’d be a merry man upon his way.
All for a song was he, ho.

Below are links to FinaleNotePad sheet music. Download the free program to hear instrumentals of all Shaxpur songs: https://www.finalemusic.com/products/notepad/
On A Dream, Anne
Road to the High Countrie
Robin Green
Sixpence Song
Are Ye Waiting
Bridge Theme
Stratford Song
Travellers' Hymn
Queen's Theme
Sweetwood Aire

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