Listen to Ludlow and Teme: No. 5, On the Idle Hill of Summer by Adrian Thompson, Iain Burnside & Delmé Quartet

Ludlow and Teme: No. 5, On the Idle Hill of Summer

Adrian Thompson, Iain Burnside & Delmé Quartet

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Adrian Thompson

Adrian Thompson

Tenor

Iain Burnside

Piano

Delmé Quartet

String Quartet

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Ivor Gurney

Composer

Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman

Lyrics

Lyrics

On the idle hill of summer,

Sleepy with the flow of streams,

Far I hear the steady drummer

Drumming like a noise in dreams.

Far and near and low and louder

On the roads of earth go by,

Dear to friends and food for powder,

Soldiers marching, all to die.

East and west on fields forgotten

Bleach the bones of comrades slain,

Lovely lads and dead and rotten;

None that go return again.

Far the calling bugles hollo,

High the screaming fife replies,

Gay the files of scarlet follow:

Woman bore me, I will rise.

Written by: Alfred Edward Housman, Ivor Gurney

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