"Now, O Now I Needs Must Part (Dowland)" genre: Renaissance
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	Another Dowland piece, this time with the VBC and my arrangement for a small Rennaisance ensemble.
	Credits: John Dowland/Chris Soldier
	Lyrics 1. Now, O now I needs must part, Parting though I absent mourn. Absence can no joy impart, joy once fled cannot return. While I live I needs must love, Love lives not when hope is gone. Now at last despair doth prove, love divided loveth none. Chorus: Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends. If that parting be offence, it is she that then offends. 2. Dear, when I from thee am gone, Gone are all my joys at once. I loved thee and thee alone, in whose love I joy-ed once. And although your sight I leave, Sight wherein my joys do lie. Till that death doth sense bereave, never shall affection die. Chorus 3. Dear, if I do not return, Love and I shall die together. For my absence never mourn, whom you might have joy-ed ever. Part we must though now I die, Die I do to part with you. Him despair doth cause to lie, who both lived and dieth true. Chorus

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