Title: Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
Music: Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778)
Text: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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- PDF: Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
- Key: A Minor
- Range: G♯3 – E5
- Source: One Hundred Songs of England
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
Where begot, where nourished?
Reply, reply, reply, reply.
It is engender’d in the eye,
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle, where it lies.