I’ve got two weeks vacation, But please broadcast to the nation That I’m not having any fun. All the other girls seem happy With boyfriends that are shappy, But I haven’t got a one. I’m just a lonely little maiden by the sea. I haven’t found a living soul to play with me. All this pretty sand and not a man to hold my hand; I’m bored stiff all the time- Poor me! Oh! If this lonely little maiden were to send A lonely letter to some all alone boyfriend, Would he pack his bag and hurry here to keep me company? O’m just a lonely little maiden by the sea. I’m blue and lonely- Poor me! I just a lonely little maiden by the sea.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Margaret Bonds (1913 - 1972), "Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea", 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Tropics After Dark, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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