Music for a While

Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile
Shall all, all, all
Shall all, all, all
Shall all your cares beguile

Wond’ring, wond’ring how your pains
Were eas’d, eas’d, eas’d
And disdaining to be pleas’d
Til Alecto free the dead
Til Alecto free the dead

Free the dead

From their eternal , eternal bands
Til the snakes drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop
Drop from her head
And the whip, and the whip from out her hands

And the whip, and the whip from out her hands

Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile
Shall all, all, all
Shall all, all, all
Shall all your cares beguile
All, all, all, all, all, all, all
Shall all your cares beguile

Music and lyrics by Henry Purcell