Monday's child
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
Monday's child, Tuesday's child, Wednesday's child, Thursday's child, Friday's child, Saturday's child, Sunday's child. Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. Monday's child, Tuesday's child, Wednesday's child, Thursday's child, Friday's child, Saturday's child, Sunday's child.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Milford Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Monday's child", published 1974 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Five Childhood Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Montagskind", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 83