X:60 % number
T:What if a day or a moneth or a year % title
C:Thomas Campion % composer
O:Jane Pickering's Lute book % origin.
M:C % meter
L:1/4 % length of shortest note
Q: % tempo
K:C % key
V:1 % voice 1
V:2 clef=treble merge
[V:1]|:A ^G/A/ [B^G] A/B/ | c d/c/ [B2^G2E2] |[cA] B/c/ d c/d/ |
w:What if a day or a moneth or a yeare crown Thy de-lights with a
w:Can-not a chance of a night or an howre crosse thy de-sires with a
[V:2]|:[E2A,2] E,2 | [A2A,2][E,2] | A,2 [G2G,2]|
[V:1] ee dc |B2 [A2E2]:|ee [dG][dG]|
w:thou-sand sweet con-tent-ings? For-tune, hon-our,
w:thous-and sweet tor-ment-ings?
[V:2][G2C2]G,A,|E E, A,2 :|[c2C2] G, G, |
[V:1][cA][cA][B2^G2E2]| cd eg|[^f2B2] [e2B2^G2E2]||
w:beau-ty, youth, are but blos-soms dy-ing;
[V:2] A A E,2 |[A2A,2]CE|[^D2B,2][B,2E,2] ||
[V:1]|:[cA]d[e2G2]|[BG]c[d2G2]|AB c d/c/ |B2 [A2E2]:|]
w:Wan-ton pleasure, doat-ing love, are but sha-d-ows fly-ing.
w:All our joyes are but toyes, id-le thoughts de--ceiv-ing;
w:None have power of an howre in their lives be--reav-ing.
[V:2]|:A, B, C2 |G,A, B,2 |[E2A,2][A2A,2] |EE, A,2 :|]
W:
W:Earthe's but a point to the world, and a man
W:Is but a point to the world's compared centure:
W:Shall then a point of a point be so vaine
W:As to triumph in a seely point's adventure?
W:All is hassard that we have,
W:There is nothing biding.
W:Dayes of pleasure are like streames
W:Through faire meadowes gliding.
W:Weal and woe, time doth goe,
W:Time is ever turning;
W:Secret fates guide our states,
W:Both in mirth and mourning.