Grainger: I'm Seventeen Come Sunday - wind dectet
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Seventeen Come Sunday", also known as "As I Roved Out", is an English folk song (Roud 277, Laws O17).
It was arranged by Percy Grainger for choir and brass accompaniment in 1912 and used in the first movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite in 1923.
The words were first published between 1838 and 1845.
According to Roud and BishopThis was a widely known song in England, and was also popular in Ireland and Scotland. It is one of those which earlier editors, such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, felt obliged to soften or rewrite for publication. It was also common on broadsides throughout the nineteenth century
