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Song Cycle by William Mayer (b. 1925)

?. hist whist
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-toe
little twitchy
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

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?. Flotsam
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
On the shoals of Nowhere,
Cast up -- my boat
Bow all broken,
No longer afloat.

On the shoals of Nowhere,
Wasted -- my song -- 
Yet taken by the sea wind
And blown along.

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Total word count: 106