Virgil Thomson - 'Sigh No More, Ladies'

This is the fifth of Virgil Thomson's "Shakespeare Songs" with text from Shakespeare's delightful comedy "Much Ado About Nothing."
This recording was made at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon in March 2021.
Bernie Bopp, tenor
Camilla Carter, accompanist

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.