Long ago, it was not the parrot which humans kept as a household companion, but the crow
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Original story from "Ride with the Sun", edited by Harold Courlander for the United Nations Women's Guild © 1955 by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Adapted and retold by Emily Doolittle.

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Emily Doolittle (b. 1972), "Why the parrot repeats human words", 2005, copyright © 2005 [ narrator, clarinet, viola and percussion ], Composers Edition; Thai folk tale
      Publisher: Composers Edition [external link]

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