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Chansons Innocentes

Song Cycle by Salvatore Giovanni Martirano (1927 - 1995)

?.   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe
little [itchy]1
witches and tingling
goblins
hob-a-nob          hob-a-nob
little hoppy happy
toad in tweeds
tweeds
little itchy mousies
with scuttling
eyes        rustle and run          and
hidehidehide
whisk
whisk          look out for the old woman
with the wart on her nose
what she'll do to yer
nobody knows
for she knows the devil            ooch
the devil        ouch
the devil
ach        the great
green
dancing
devil
devil
 
devil
devil
 
                    wheeEEE

Text Authorship:

  • by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 2, first published 1923

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1 W. Mayer: "twitchy"

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?.   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Tumbling-hair
                         picker of buttercups
                                                            violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
                                    through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
                    also picking flowers

Text Authorship:

  • by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 3, first published 1923

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1.   [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
 
whistles       far         and wee --
 
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
 
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far       and         wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
 
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
 
it's
spring
and
        the
 
                goat-footed
 
balloonMan         whistles
far
                                and
                wee

Text Authorship:

  • by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962), no title, appears in Tulips and Chimneys, in 1. Tulips, in 2. Chansons innocentes, no. 1, first published 1920

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First published as "IV" in Five Poems, in The Dial, Volume 68 no. 5, May 1920, and in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 160
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