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Intermezzo ‑ Pretty Bess Lyrics by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Five Tudor Portraits: A Choral Suite in Five Movements

1936

My proper Bess
My pretty Bess;
Turn once again to me!
For sleepest thou, Bess
Or wakest thou, Bess
Mine heart it is with thee
My daisy delectable
My primrose commendable
My violet amiable
My joy inexplicable
Now turn again to me
Alas! I am disdained
And as a man half maimed
My heart is so sore pained!
I pray thee, Bess, unfeigned
Yet come again to me!
By love I am constrained
To be with you retained
It will not be refrained:
I pray you, bе reclaimed
And turn again to me
My propеr Bess
My pretty Bess
Turn once again to me!
For sleepest thou, Bess
Or wakest thou, Bess
Mine heart it is with thee

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"Intermezzo ‑ Pretty Bess" is credited to Ralph Vaughan Williams. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Intermezzo ‑ Pretty Bess" appears on "Five Tudor Portraits: A Choral Suite in Five Movements" in 1936.

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