Listen to The Song of Songs: The Fifth Day: No. 5, We Have a Little Sister (Shulamite, Shepherd) by Elizabeth Connell, Kim Begley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley

The Song of Songs: The Fifth Day: No. 5, We Have a Little Sister (Shulamite, Shepherd)

Elizabeth Connell, Kim Begley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley

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OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Elizabeth Connell

Elizabeth Connell

Soprano

Kim Begley

Tenor

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Vernon Handley

Conductor

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Granville Bantock

Granville Bantock

Composer

Lyrics

The Shulamite: We have a little sister,

and she hath no breasts:

what shall we do for our sister in the day

when she shall be spoken for?

The Shepherd: If she be a wall,

we will build upon her a palace of silver:

and if she be a door,

we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

The Shulamite: I am a wall,

and my breasts like towers:

then was I in his eyes

as one that found favour.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon;

he let out the vineyard unto keepers;

every one for the fruit thereof

was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:

thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand,

and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

The Shepherd: Thou that dwellest in the gardens,

the companions hearken to thy voice:

cause me to hear it.

Written by: Granville Bantock

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