by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Robin and Richard
Language: English
Robin and Richard were two pretty men, They lay in bed till the clock struck ten. Then up starts Robin and looks at the sky: "Oh, brother Richard, the sun's very high. You go before with the bottle and bag, And I will come after on little Jack Nag."
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), "Robin and Richard", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 3. [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: 6
Word count: 49