by Ho Chi Minh (1890 - 1969)
Translation © by Aileen Palmer
Prison Song (the Leg‑Irons)
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文)
With hungry mouth open like a wicked monster [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Aileen Palmer , appears in Prison Diary, first published 1971, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Ho Chi Minh (1890 - 1969) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), "Prison Song (the Leg-Irons)", from Stimmen, no. 2. [text verified 1 time]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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