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Soldier, Won't You Marry Me? - by Paul Halley
Publication Details
No. III from the song cycle "Love Songs For Springtime'
 

 
  Catalogue Number -
LL-VG441 SATB

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB choir and piano
or optional brass quintet

Level of Difficulty - Easy
Uses/Season - Festival, Concert

Perusal score pdf can be viewed while listening simultaneously to
audio track below.

Licensed by arrangement with Alfred Music for Warner Chappell Music Canada

 

Duration -
3:00 mins


Pages Music -
9 pages - 16 page booklet
Format -
SATB/piano choral octavo


Copyright Year - 1986



Perusal Score PDF
SATB version perusal - page 1 of 9
 
 
Description/Remarks
LL-VG441 SATB "Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?" by Paul Halley, is number III in the six-song cycle 'Love Songs For Springtime', composed 1986 for
the Ottawa Choral Society, Brian Law, director. The works in the song cycle are the settings of traditional English folk texts and each song describes a different perspective on love. 'Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?' is a whimsical piece that tells the story of a soldier who tricks a female admirer into buying him clothes for a wedding before she discovers that he is already married. Text anon.

Commissioned 1986 by the Ottawa Choral Society, Brian Law, director.
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Recorded on

WONDROUS LOVE
JN104 CD

Wondrous Love


Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus
The Battell Brass - Directed by Paul Halley


 

 
 

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Texts 

Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?

from 'Love Songs for Springtime'
Text: Traditional English
Music: Paul Halley

Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me?
It’s O a fife and a drum.
How can I marry such a pretty girl
When I’ve no hat to put on?

Off to the tailor she did go
As hard as she could run,
Brought him back the finest was there,
Now soldier put it on.

Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me?
It’s O a fife and a drum.
How can I marry such a pretty girl
When I’ve no coat to put on?

Off to the tailor she did go
As hard as she could run,
Brought him back the finest was there,
Now soldier put it on.

Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me?
It’s O a fife and a drum.
How can I marry such a pretty girl
When I’ve no shoes to put on?

Off to the shoe shop she did go
As hard as she could run,
Brought him back the finest was there,
Now soldier put them on.

Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me?
It’s O a fife and a drum.
How can I marry such a pretty girl
And a wife and baby at home?

Off to the tailor...

Off to the...

And a wife and baby at home!