COME AGAIN

About 15 years ago I started a Vocal Group. We mainly sing pop music, sometimes something classical.
Last November our conductor had to stop working with us and because I've learned a lot from Rob en from BIAB, I decided to take over his duties.
They asked for something classical, so I looked for something that was not too difficult (although we also sing some complicated popsongs) and which could be performed by 3 vocal ranges: sopranos, mezzo sopranos and altos (of which I am one).
I found "Come again".The music was written by John Dowland at then end of the 16th Century. It is unknown who wrote the lyrics, they were already there when he wrote the music.
It strikes me that it sounds so "modern", it might have been written yesterday.
The song is in the public domain.
I decided to make my own (simple) arrangement with Biab and I recorded the 3 parts and sent it to the members of my Vocal Group.
We are now rehearsing the song.
When I had recorded my own version (with my own vocals) I thought I might as wel provide it with a video and post it on YouTube.
I tried to let the video make a connection between the present and the era of John Dowland.

Anne-Marie

Come Again

Come again,
sweet love doth now invite,
thy graces that refrain
to do me due delight
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die
with thee again in sweetest sympathy

Come again,
that I may cease to mourn
through thy unkind disdain for now left and forlorn.
I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die,
in deadly pain and endless misery

All the day, the sun that lends me shine
By frowns do cause me pine
and feeds me with delay
Her smiles, my springs, that make my joys to grow,
Her frowns, the winter of my woe

And for those who want to meet my Vocal Group this is the ffwnn website

We are Rob Meulman and Anne-Marie Bovenkamp from The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gsdNLE7_Gy8qavoOplQow/videos
http://rnam.net/