by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
I won't be my father's Jack
Language: English
I won't be my father's Jack, I won't be my father's Jill, I will be the fiddler's wife And have music when I will. T'other little tune, Prithee, love, play me T'other little tune.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, verses from a Poetry Bookshop publication, Nurse Lovechild's Legacy.  [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 Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "I won't be my father's Jack", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 34