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What Thing Is Love?

uploaded: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 @ 3:07 PM last modified: Sat, Sep 1, 2012 @ 12:39 AM (add)

by	Javolenus
Featuring	John Bartlet
length	5:08
BPM	102
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EDIT: Now extended and with electric guitar.
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Came up with these chords, recorded on 6- and 12-string guitars. I then found a lyric/text by Renaissance composer John Bartlet (c. 1606) in a book of lute music. I impro’d Bartlet’s lyrics over my chords and recorded the result. Will add stems. Lyrics:

WHAT THING IS LOVE [Lyrics by John Bartlet, c. 1606]

What thing is love?
What thing is love?
I pray thee tell!
It is a prickle, it is a sting
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole;
And as my wits can best devise
Love’s Darling lies in Ladies’ eyes.

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