Bed in summer | In winter I get up at night

In winter I get up at night

Language: English

Our translations: ITA

In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Bed in summer", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [author's text not yet checked 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 Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Does it not seem hard", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse" [sung text not yet checked]
by Norah Blaney , "Bed in summer", published 1918 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Harry Brook (1893 - ?), "Bed in summer", published 1930 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Crawford , "Bed in summer", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Bed in summer", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Falk , "Bed in summer", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Song of Bed-time", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonio Giacometti (b. 1957), "Bed in summer", 2005 [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Stevenson Songs, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Bed in summer", 1912, published 1915 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Bed in summer", published 1916 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "Bed in summer", published 1907 [ alto or baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by David Moule-Evans (b. 1905), "Bed in summer", published <<1951 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "In winter I get up at night", <<1901 [ voice and piano ], from Three songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Horatio William Parker (1863 - 1919), "Bed in summer", published 1920 [ unaccompanied voice ], adapted to an English folk air, in The Progressive Music Series [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Bed in summer", published c1952 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marvin Radnor , "Bed in summer", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Bed in summer", published 1963 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879 - 1943), "Bed in summer", published 1915 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Bed in summer", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from The Twins' Tune Book, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Bed in summer", op. 30 no. 1, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Wardale , "Bed in summer", published 1958 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "Bed in summer", published 1955 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "Bed in summer", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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