Oh, I should like to ride the seas [ ... ]
Songs of Perfect Propriety
Song Cycle by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014)
1. Song of perfect propriety  [sung text not yet checked]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Song of perfect propriety", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Little white love, your way you've taken [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Now at liberty", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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I'm wearied of wearying love, my friend [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Ultimatum", appears in Death and Taxes and Other Poems, first published 1931, copyright ©
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Chloe's hair, no doubt, was brighter [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Renunciation", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Four be the things I am wiser to know [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Inventory", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Lady, lady should you meet [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Social note", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Once, when I was young and true [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "A very short song", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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A single flow'r he sent me, since we met [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "One perfect rose", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.First published in Life, January 4, 1923
9. Wisdom  [sung text not yet checked]
This I say, and this I know [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Wisdom", appears in Sunset Gun, first published 1928, copyright ©
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They hail you as their morning star [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Men", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Sleep, pretty lady, the night is enfolding you [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Lullaby", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Comment", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.First published in New York World, August 16, 1925
13. Symptom recital  [sung text not yet checked]
I do not like my state of mind [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Symptom recital", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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They laid their hands upon my head [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "The false friends", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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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.
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Love song", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926
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First published in Life, October 23, 1924Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
16. Indian Summer  [sung text not yet checked]
In youth, it was a way I had [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Indian Summer", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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This is what I vow [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Somebody's song", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Here in my heart I am Helen [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Song of one of the girls", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Little things that no one needs [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Bric-á-Brac", appears in Sunset Gun, first published 1928, copyright ©
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And if, my friend, you'd have it end [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "They part", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Some men, some men [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Chant for dark hours", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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He'd have given me rolling lands [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "The choice", appears in Enough Rope, first published 1926, copyright ©
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Oh, I'd been better dying [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "The trusting heart", appears in Sunset Gun, first published 1928, copyright ©
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There's little in taking or giving [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), "Coda", appears in Sunset Gun, first published 1928, copyright ©
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