Doctor Foster
Language: English
Doctor Foster Went to Gloucester, In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle, Right up to his middle, And never went there again.
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- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester", Mother Goose [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester", L. 538 no. 4 (1937) [ voice and piano ], from Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Doctor Foster", op. 550 (1959) [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) ; composed by Zara Aleksandrovna Levina.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-31
Line count: 6
Word count: 25