by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Cricket‑canon
Language: English
Hello there! How are you? You want to hear this beautiful, nice little recite? Well, here it comes at last! Hush! And listen! Just keep quiet! Yes! Okay! Just keep quiet! Wonderful! Let's go! One day awalking down in the lane, I found a cricket, down in the lane, I found a nice little pal, a little green cricket, a little pal, a cricket! Yes, so nice, so sweet and clever! Well, I bought him a pearch of sugar cane. Sweet, sweetest sugar! But now I've lost my beautiful, nice little cricket. Bye cricket, so long goodbye! You were my dearest beautiful, nice little cricket! Goodbye!
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Erika Budai (b. 1966), "Cricket-canon", 1994 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2025-03-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 106