Trusham

Charles Causley
Allegro  = 120 Music by David Haines

SOLO
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           
4

    In this blown house my grand - fa - ther was

SOLO           
born And here his` fa - ther first un - shook his bones

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SOLO                
11 3

3
3

Walk - ing the church - yard as a child I saw my slate name

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  Poco ritentuo.............................
A tempo

SOLO        
on their dou - ble page of stone
The
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SOLO           3

 
3
3

war me - mo - ri - al a lump of rock Up- end - ed

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                   
24 3
SOLO
3
rol - lers length of i - ron twine Crests like a coas - ter the hill's wave
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           
29
SOLO
I read the bul - let - co - loured names
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SOLO     
34
  

My - fa - ther's, mine My
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Ritenuto.........................................................
SOLO       3
4
fa - ther's, mine In
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SOLO              
44

Rat - tle Street the road is Flan - ders thick An old man
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47 3
SOLO

shoul-der - sacked a gainst the rain Un-der the droop-ing fin - gers of a rick asks
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SOLO     
         
"What is it that brings you here a - gain?

        
Sop
  
     
"What is it that brings you here a - gain?

You ne - ver mar - ried and you've

Alto             
     
"What is it that brings you here a - gain? You
 ne - ver mar - ried


and you've

Tenor         
8
      
"What is it that brings you here a - gain?

  You


Ne
 -


ver mar - ried,

Bass
 "What is it that brings you here a - gain? You
 
Ne - ver mar - ried,

 
           
55

Sop       
   
got no child I don't know what your Dad would say to that and

Alto               

Tenor
got no

     
child I don't know

 
what your


Dad would
  
say
 to that
     
and

 
got no
    child I don't know
 
what your


Dad would
 
say
  
to that
   and

Bass
 
got no child I don't know what your Dad would say to that and

   59

Sop                  4
4
you the on - ly one It seems to me that when you've gone the

          
Alto

       4
4

       
you the on - ly one It seems to me that when you've gone the

Tenor           4
4

       
8 you the on - ly one It seems
 to
  me
    
that when you've

gone
 
the

Bass
 you the on - ly one It seems to me that when you've gone the
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2 Copyright © David Haines 2008

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4
4
          
How can I tell him that the sound - ing

       
Sop 4
4  
name will just go scat

Alto        
4
4
name will just go scat

Tenor        
4
4
8
name will just go scat

      
Bass
 4
4
name will just go scat
  
SOLO         
68
      
heart The sound - ing heart Oiled with the same old blood
              
73 3
SOLO 
can - not be re - set? Use- less to say that this par -
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SOLO              
78 3
       
ti - cu - lar flesh won'tscrape off dry off like the mud the wet

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         
  
Sop       
Be - yond the pale dis - tu - ban - ces of sky An - o - ther

     
Alto              
Be - yond the pale dis - tu - ban - ces of sky An - o - ther

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          
Tenor            
8 Be - yond the pale dis - tu - ban - ces of sky An - o - ther

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         
Bass
           
  
Be - yond the pale dis 3- tu - ban - ces of sky An - o - ther
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90
         
Sop   
year as - sem - bles its vast floe Ice lines the

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Alto               
year as - sem - bles its vast floe Ice lines the

 
Tenor            
8 year as - sem - bles its vast floe Ice lines the

Bass
             
year as - sem - bles its vast floe Ice lines the

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             
3
Sop      
turn- ing air It sof - tens Soon ad - van-ces from the

Alto      3
           
turn- ing air It sof - tens Soon ad - van-ces from the

Tenor                   
3
8 turn - ing air It sof - tens Soon ad - van-ces from the

Bass
    
3
             
turn-ing air It sof - tens Soon ad - van- ces from the

     
102

Sop 
west
   
the
3

car - ri - on snow
   the snow....
  
Alto           3

     
west the car - ri - on snow the snow....

Tenor           3

     
8 west the car - ri - on snow the snow....

               
Bass
   3
west the car - ri - on snow 4 the snow....