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
Chansons Innocentes
Song Cycle by Robert Myers (b. 1941)
?. hist whist/ little ghostthings  [sung text not yet checked]
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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View original text (without footnotes)1 W. Mayer: "twitchy"
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?. Tumbling‑hair  [sung text not yet checked]
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
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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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]in Just‑/ spring when the world is mud
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
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 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Set by by Robert Myers (b. 1941) [ SA chorus and percussion ]First published as "IV" in Five Poems, in The Dial, Volume 68 no. 5, May 1920, and in 1923 in Tulips and Chimneys.
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