A Drinking Song - (2017) ![](images/01_Little_Green_Dot.gif)
W. B Yeats
baritone and piano
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
3 pages, circa 2' 00"
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W. B. Yeats
The text is found in Responsibilities and Other Poems, 1916. For other settings of Yeats' texts, click here.
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The short poem is broken into two-line stanzas as if a longer form, and the song form thereby extended with repeats.
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The score for A Drinking Song is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano-vocal score.
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A Drinking Song
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