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Stephen Varcoe
Stephen Varcoe
Baritone
Iain Burnside
Iain Burnside
Piano
Delmé Quartet
Delmé Quartet
String Quartet
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ivor Gurney
Ivor Gurney
Composer
Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Edward Housman
Songwriter

Lyrics

Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal:
Football then was fighting sorrow
For the young man’s soul.
Now in Maytime to the wicket
Out I march with bat and pad:
See the son of grief at cricket
Trying to be glad.
Try I will; no harm in trying:
Wonder ’tis how little mirth
Keeps the bones of man from lying
On the bed of earth.
Written by: Alfred Edward Housman, Ivor Gurney

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