by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Heigh my hearts!
Language: English
Heigh my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly my hearts; take in the topsail; keep below. To your cabins, to your cabins below. Take in the topsail, down with the top mast. Lower - lower - keep below - Bring her to try with the main course. Lay a-hold, a-hold, a-hold: off to sea again. Lay her off. Heigh, my hearts, cheerly, heigh my hearts. Take in the topsail. Take in the topsail. Quick! Bring her to try with the main course. Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Farewell, my wife and children! Farewell, brother! We split, we split.
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Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The Tempest Overture, Interludes and Incidental Music" [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
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