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SATB

ATTB

It was a lover and his lass (a modern madrigal) for SATB choir (A version for men's voices (ATTB) is also available) A jolly parody of Shakespeare's song by the same name but using my "Bell Dance" as the melody to represent the lovers' mobile phones (or cell phones as they say in the USA). These pretty city folk walk down supermarket aisles chatting to each other on their mobile phones instead of the green corn fields of Shakespeare's original.

The sound sample here was performed by the Composer's Choir under Daniel Shaw.

ring ding dong ding dong ring ding dong ding dong

It was a lover and his lass in the spring time that through the city streets did pass in this ring time calling each other every minute or two and texting in case they couldn't get through oh hearken to the lovers in the spring time!

Between the supermarket aisles while they're shopping these pretty city folk would chat without stopping vainly the birds are welcoming spring with their song they'll wear themselves out e'er very long while lads and lasses never tire of ringing!

Then one day when Romeo must text his Julietta just to say I luv ya yeah I luv ya so much but then she rings back to tell him that it's all over she's met a nicer lad from Folkestone or Dover (It's all over it's all over lad from Dover)

so he just rings to all of his pals and calls her a slag!

and all the people on the tram hear the show while our pretty city folk live all on their mobile then suddenly the battery's flat as a skate and Romeo can not ring his mate he's sorry that he called her "slag" in spring time he can't ring her he can't ring his Julietta sorry now in spring.

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