The Turtle Dove, also known as Fare Thee Well or 10,000 Miles is an 18th- century English folk ballad
In this song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers. The first published version of the song appeared in Roxburghe Ballads dated 1710. At that time the song was traditionally sung to a range of different tunes. In 1907, the composer and folk-song scholar Ralph Vaughan Williams recorded David Penfold, an innkeeper from Rusper, Sussex, singing The Turtle Dove and the recording is available online via the British Library Sound Archive. In 1919, Vaughan Williams wrote an arrangement of the song, entitled The Turtle Dove for solo baritone - later re-arranged for solo and SATB choir
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