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Good-Bye Old Winter
Staff Notation • Secular, Partsongs
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Good-Bye Old Winter by Arnold Johann Gantvoort — Lyrics
Goodbye, goodbye, Old Winter gray!
Your reign is fairly over,
We’ll gladly change your snow and ice
For fresh green grass and clover!
Just for your comfort, Winter gray,
We hope you will remember
With how much joy we welcomed in
Your chilly grim December.
But ah! the green and radiant hills!
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About Good-Bye Old Winter
As spring's arrival melts away the last vestiges of winter, this SATB setting of an English text expresses a fond but firm farewell to the departing season. The choir joyfully anticipates the greening of the landscape and the return of flowing streams, contrasting it with the memory of winter's chilly grip. Yet, even as they welcome the new growth, the singers offer a polite acknowledgment to Old Winter, acknowledging the joy his arrival once brought in December, before urging him to depart. The part-song paints a vivid picture of nature's cyclical renewal and the universal human pleasure in its changing moods.
