Lord Byron: Some Song Settings; Bluegrass Byron; Byron Lives!

So we'll go no more a-roving - Leonard Cohen

So We'll Go No More A-Roving - Joan Baez


So We'll Go No More a A-Roving - John Webster and Brindaband 


Richard Dyer-Bennet Sings "So We'll Go No More A Roving"


When we two parted, Maeve Höglund


She Walks in Beauty, Jesse Ferguson


Three Musical Settings of Byron Love Poems, Brian Blyth Daubney

Deux poèmes de Lord Byron (Tailleferre)

Three songs on poems by Lord Byron / composed by Fanny Hensel.

Hebrew Melodies, Isaac Nathan

My Soul Is Dark


The Isles of Greece


Σταμάτης Χατζηευσταθίου - Ανδριάνα Μπάμπαλη - The isles of Greece


Silence or Tears (Bluegrass adaptation)


Silence or Tears, The Country Gentlemen


Silence or Tears, Norman and Nancy Blake


Silence or Tears, John Duffey


Silence or Tears, The South Carolina Broadcasters


The Country Pickers - Silence or Tears


Silence or Tears · Blackberry Winter Band · Linda Stoffel 


Silence Or Tears · Auldridge-Bennett-Gaudreau


Silence or Tears- Andy Edmonds, David Sheppard, Ivy Sheppard

Bill Schustik - When we two parted in silence and tears


It's great to see Lord Byron's verses on the lips of singers in some unexpected settings and locations all around the world (even if his words have been changed!)


As Adrian Mitchell once wrote in Byron is one of the dancers:

"His poems - they were glad with jokes, trumpets, arguments and
                                                                          flying crockery
                                                  Rejoice
He shook hearts with his lust and nonsense, he was independent as
                                                                             the weather
                                                  Rejoice
Alive, alive, as alive as us, he used his life and let life use him
He loved freedom, he loved Greece, and yes of course, he died for
                                                                  the freedom of Greece
                                                   Rejoice.....

and yes, I hear the music which drives those feet
and feel the arm of Byron round my shoulder
or maybe it is round your shoulder
Oh I feel your arm around my shoulder
and yes, I know the line of dancers
across the cracked-up earth of Greece
stretches from sea to sea...
dance out the dance which must be danced
for the freedom of Greece
for the freedom of Greece..."


Adrian Mitchell.
Extracts from the poem included in "Ride the Nightmare", 1971.

A Dancing Girl, Ioannina, Epirus, 1813

HOBHOUSE, John Cam, Lord Broughton. A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 … Second Edition, vols Ι-II, London, James Cawthorn, 1813.

A GREEK FOLKSONG COPIED FOR LORD BYRON (pdf)


Translation Of The Famous Greek War Song