Every night

Every night my prayers I say,
and learn my lessons every day.
And every day that I am good
I have an orange after food.

The boy that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty boy, I'm sure,
Or else his dear papa is poor.

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It is based on

• a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "System", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Natalie Burlin Curtis, Edward Falk, Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor, Liza Lehmann. Go to the text.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "Every night", op. 20 (A Book of Songs) no. 3 (1889), published 1893. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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