Come Away, Come Away Death [SHAKESPEARE set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 16/04/2015

Here is the Fool's speech to Orsino in Act 2 Scene 4 of Twelfth Night, set to music.

You can download the score, together with midi, mp3 and playalong version from:
http://www.free-scores.com/Download-PDF-Sheet-Music-tobydarling.htm

The pictures, from commons.wikipedia.org, are all either paintings of Cypress trees or scenes from Twelfth Night. If any  infringe copyright I will of course remove them, ad can supply details of the works on request.


Song: “Come away, come away, death” 
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Twelfth Night)
Am9 Am9+4 Am9 Am9+4
Come away, come away, death,
Am Em Am Em
    And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Am9 Am9+4 Am9 Am9+4
Fly away, fly away, breath;
  Am Em Am Em
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
Dm Am G#m C#m
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
B A C#m
             O, prepare it!
B A G#m C#m
My part of death, no one so true
B A C#m
         Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
    On my black coffin let there be strown.
Not a friend, not a friend greet
    My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
             Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
             To weep there!

Am9: x02500 (AECBE)
Am9+4: x02430 (AEBDE)