Songs of Perfect Propriety

Song Cycle by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014)

1. Song of perfect propriety  [sung text not yet checked]

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Oh, I should like to ride the seas
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2. Now at liberty  [sung text not yet checked]

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Little white love, your way you've taken
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3. Ultimatum  [sung text not yet checked]

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I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend
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4. Renunciation  [sung text not yet checked]

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Chloe's hair, no doubt, was brighter
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5. Inventory  [sung text not yet checked]

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Four be the things I am wiser to know
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6. Social note  [sung text not yet checked]

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Lady, lady should you meet
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7. A very short song  [sung text not yet checked]

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Once, when I was young and true
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8. One perfect rose  [sung text not yet checked]

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A single flow'r he sent me, since we met
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First published in Life, January 4, 1923

9. Wisdom  [sung text not yet checked]

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This I say, and this I know
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10. Men  [sung text not yet checked]

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They hail you as their morning star
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11. Lullaby  [sung text not yet checked]

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Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you
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12. Comment  [sung text not yet checked]

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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First published in New York World, August 16, 1925

13. Symptom recital  [sung text not yet checked]

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I do not like my state of mind
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14. The false friends  [sung text not yet checked]

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They laid their hands upon my head
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15. Love song  [sung text not yet checked]

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My own dear love, he is strong and bold
    And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
    And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled --
    Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world, --
    And I wish I'd never met him.

My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
    And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
    And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
    As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams, --
    And I wish he were in Asia.

My love runs by like a day in June,
    And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He'll tread his galloping rigadoon
    In the pathway of the morrows.
He'll live his days where the sunbeams start,
    Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart, --
    And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

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First published in Life, October 23, 1924

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

16. Indian Summer  [sung text not yet checked]

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In youth, it was a way I had
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17. Somebody's song  [sung text not yet checked]

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This is what I vow
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18. Song of one of the girls  [sung text not yet checked]

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Here in my heart I am Helen
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19. Bric‑Brac  [sung text not yet checked]

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Little things that no one needs
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20. They part  [sung text not yet checked]

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And if, my friend, you'd have it end
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21. Chant for dark hours  [sung text not yet checked]

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Some men, some men
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22. The choice  [sung text not yet checked]

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He'd have given me rolling lands
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23. The trusting heart  [sung text not yet checked]

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Oh, I'd been better dying
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24. Coda  [sung text not yet checked]

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There's little in taking or giving
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