Editing Oranges and Lemons (section)

==Melody==
[[File:StClementsDanes.ogg|thumb|[[St Clement Danes]]]]
The tune is reminiscent of [[change ringing]], and the intonation of each line is said to correspond with the distinct sounds of each church's bells. Today, the bells of [[St Clement Danes]] ring out the tune of the rhyme—as reported in 1940 the church's playing of the tune was interrupted during World War II due to Nazi bombing of the church during [[the Blitz]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Layman's Magazine of the Living Church, Issues 1–20 |date=1940 |publisher=Morehouse-Gorham |page=5}}{{title missing|date=January 2025|reason=Article title?}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_churches/stclementsdanes_church1.htm |title=St Clement Danes, The Strand London WC2 : tourist information from |publisher=TourUK |access-date=2012-05-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222011937/http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_churches/stclementsdanes_church1.htm |archive-date=2012-02-22 }}</ref> As is the case with almost all traditional songs, there were minor variations in the melody. Collector of British folk songs, [[James Madison Carpenter]], recorded two versions of the song in the 1930s which are now available on the [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] website: one in [[Garsington]], Oxfordshire,<ref>{{Cite web|title='Orange and Lemons' (VWML Song Index SN19197)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongIndex/SN19197|access-date=2021-02-20|website=[[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]]}}</ref> and another somewhere in either [[Yorkshire]] or [[Lincolnshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|title='Bells of St [Clement's], The' (VWML Song Index SN16826)|url=https://www.vwml.org/record/VWMLSongIndex/SN16826|access-date=2021-02-20|website=[[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]]}}</ref> These recordings show slight melodic and lyrical variations.

<score sound raw>
\header { tagline = ##f }
\layout { indent = 0
  \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" }
  \context { \Voice \remove "Dynamic_engraver" }
}

global = { \key a \major \time 3/4 }

repeated = \relative c'' { \global \autoBeamOff \set midiInstrument = "tubular bells"
  e4 cis e | cis a b8 cis | d4 b e | cis a2 |
  e'8 e cis4 e | cis a b8 cis | d4 b e | cis a2^\markup { "al" \musicglyph "scripts.coda" } \bar "||"
}
payme = \relative c'' {
  b4 gis b | gis e fis8 gis | a4 fis b | gis e2 |
  b'4 gis b | e,2 fis8 gis | a4 fis b | e,2.^"D.C." \bar "||" \mark \markup { \musicglyph "scripts.coda" }
}
koda = \relative c' {
  cis'4 a e' | cis a b8 ([cis]) | b4 d gis, | a2
  b4 cis a e' | cis a b8 ([cis]) | d4 cis b | a2. \bar "|."
}
grep = \relative c { \global \clef bass \set midiInstrument = "tubular bells"
  a4 e' a | a,4 e' a | b, e gis | a,4 e' a | 
  a,4 e' a | e a cis | e, gis b | a cis a |
}
gpay = \relative c {
  e gis b | e, gis b | dis, fis b | e, gis b |
  e, gis b | e, gis b | fis dis b | e d! b |
}
gkoda = \relative c {
  a e' a | a, e' a | b, e gis | cis, e a |
  a, e' a | a, e' a | <d b> <e cis> <d gis,> | <cis a>2. \bar "|."
}
verse = \new Lyrics \lyricmode {
  << { Oran -- ges and lem -- ons,
  say the bells of St. Clem -- ent's.

  You owe me five far -- things,
  say the bells of St. Mar -- tin's.
  
  When will you pay me?
  Say the bells at Old Bai -- ley.

  When I grow rich,
  say the bells at Shore -- ditch. }
  \new Lyrics { \set stanza = "D.C."
  When will that be? _ 
  Say the bells of Step -- ney. _
  I _ do not know,  _
  says the great bell at Bow. _ }
  >>
  Here comes a cand -- le to light you to bed,
  And here comes a chop -- per to chop off your head!
}

\score { \new ChoirStaff
  <<
    { \repeated \payme \koda }
    \addlyrics \verse
    \new Staff { \grep \gpay \gkoda }
  >>
  \layout { }
}
\score { { << { \repeated \payme \repeated \koda } \\ { \grep \gpay \grep \gkoda } >> }
  \midi { \tempo 4=120
    \context { \Score midiChannelMapping = #'instrument }
    \context { \Staff \remove "Staff_performer" }
    \context { \Voice \consists "Staff_performer" }
  }
}
</score>
Source<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Oranges and Lemons|title=The Baby's Opera|page=56|editor=[[Walter Crane]]|others=engraved by [[Edmund Evans]]|year=1877|publisher=George Routledge and Sons|location=London, New York|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/babysoperabookof00cran/page/11/mode/1up|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>