Title: On Liberty (How Happy Thou and I)
Composer: Henry Lawes (1595-1662)
Author: Unknown
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- Key: D Major
- Range: D4 – F♯5
- Source: Twenty Four Songs by English Composers of the 17th & 18th Centuries
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How happy thou and I that never knew how to love!
There’s no such blessing here beneath, whate’er there is above.
‘Tis Liberty, ’tis Liberty, that every wise man loves.Out, out upon those Eyes, that think to murder me!
And he’s an Ass believes her fair that will not leave him free:
There’s nothing sweet, there’s nothing sweet to man but Liberty.I’ll tie my heart to none nor yet confine mine eyes,
But I will rove at Liberty and be no woman’s prize:
‘Tis Liberty, ’tis Liberty, has made me now thus wise.
