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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside - Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown - Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!
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Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The swing", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [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 Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Swing song", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse" [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Chorbajian (b. 1936), "The swing", 1966 [ children's chorus, flute, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Crawford , "The swing", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "The swing", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven (1859 - 1920), "The swing", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Eidson , "The swing", 2010 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs of Enchantment and Wonder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edward Falk , "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "The swing", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Groocock , "How do you like to go up in a swing", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858 - 1940?), "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "The swing", op. 29 no. 2, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Four Stevenson Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "The swing", 1915, published 1917 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Little Songs, no. 1, Éd. Heugel, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Burton E. Hardin , "The swing", op. 23 no. 1 (<<1979), copyright © 1983 [ tenor or soprano, horn, and piano or strings ], from Flights of Fancy, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marjorie Helyer , "The swing", published 1957 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Percy Charles Judd (1892 - ?), "The swing", published 1925 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "The swing", published 1893 [ soprano and piano ], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873 - 1953), "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Five Children's Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Moore (1886 - 1946), "Swing song", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), "The swing", 1985, from Souvenirs from Childhood, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by David Moule-Evans (b. 1905), "The swing", published <<1951 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "The swing", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Swing", op. 103 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "The swing", published 1963 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "The swing", published 1933 [ unaccompanied voice ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879 - 1943), "The swing", published 1915 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Smith , "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Song Pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Muriel Thomas , "The swing", published 1957 [ medium unison chorus and piano ], from Four songs for children, also set in Welsh (translation by Wil Ifan) [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Brown Russell Whitfield , "The swing", published 1955 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Patrick Williams (1905 - 1985), "The swing", published 1961 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Luton Wood , "The swing", published 1915-7 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "The swing", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Léna (1859 - 1928) ; composed by Reynaldo Hahn.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "La balançoire", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 83
Aimes-tu monter sur une balançoire En haut, dans l'air si bleu? Oh! je pense vraiment que c'est la plus plaisante chose Qu'un enfant puisse faire. Haut dans le ciel, par-dessus le mur Jusqu'à ce que je puisse apercevoir au loin Les rivières, les arbres, les troupeaux, et tout Par-dessus la campagne Jusqu'à ce que je regarde en bas, le jardin vert En bas, le toit si brun, Haut dans le ciel je revole encor, Haut dans le ciel, et puis en bas!
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Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The swing", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2007-11-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 82