Chorus:
Go away, go away, jealous ones / To the road, to the road, jealous ones
Leave us be, let us be
We shall all dance, all dance most joyfully
Last verse:
If you saw our lady dance, eya!
Gracefully she does advance, eya!
With just but a single glance, eya!
You would know there is no chance
That there is no peer to our fair Queen Joyeuse
Some further resources:
Skye Consort performance of original
Sheet music (link down the bottom, page 2)
Now, I'm bad at sight-reading, but listening to the Skye Consort and looking at Vladislav the Purple's score, they don't seem to match. Maybe it's because they sing faster than I can follow.
What I need to do:
1) Play the sheet music to see if it tallies with the tune in my head
2) Listen to the early music CD I have with this on it, and see if that tallies with the tune in my head (I may have learned it wrongly; I have a hard time getting this one, for some reason. Maybe the melismas.)
3) Make sure my translation can be sung. It works to the tune in my head, and the verses at least can be fit under the notes in the score (although not the way they sound in my head)
4) Go back and make corrections as needed.
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