in spite of ev'rything [ ... ]
Five Cummings Songs
Song Cycle by Elie Siegmeister (1909 - 1991)
1. In spite of everything  [sung text not yet checked]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in is 5, first published 1926, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.2. The first of all my dreams  [sung text not yet checked]
the first of all my dreams was of [ ... ]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in 73 Poems, first published 1963, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. raise the shade  [sung text not yet checked]
raise the shade will youse dearie? rain wouldn’t that get yer goat but we don’t care do we dearie we should worry about the rain huh dearie? yknow i’m sorry for awl the poor girls that gets up god knows when every day of their lives aint you, oo-oo. dearie not so hard dear you’re killing me
Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in & [AND], in 1. A, in 2. Portraits, no. 5, first published 1925
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4. Up into the silence  [sung text not yet checked]
up into the silence the green [ ... ]
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- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in 50 Poems, first published 1940, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. Because it's spring
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Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), appears in 73 Poems, first published 1963, copyright ©
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