Some say that Love's a little boy [ ... ]
Cabaret Songs
Song Cycle by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Word count: 997
1. Tell me the truth about love [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship
- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), "O tell me the truth about love", copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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Note: Britten's setting begins with a spoken line that does not appear in the Auden poem: "Liebe l'amour amor amoris."
1 Britten: "it's"
2 Britten: "it"
2. Funeral Blues [sung text checked 1 time]
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone [ ... ]
Authorship
- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), no title, appears in The Ascent of F6, first published 1936, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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1 Britten: "bands"
2 Britten: "could"
3. Johnny [sung text checked 1 time]
O the valley in the summer where I and my John [ ... ]
Authorship
- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), "Johnny", appears in Another Time, first published 1940, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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1 Britten: "grass"
2 Britten: "Whispered so soft in"
3 Britten: "the evening"
4 Britten: "like ivy"
5 Britten: "gold and silver"
6 Britten: "Johnny"
7 Britten: "down"
4. Calypso [sung text checked 1 time]
Driver, drive faster and make a good run [ ... ]
Authorship
- by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), "Calypso", appears in Another Time, first published 1940, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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1 Britten: "for the Grand"
2 Musto: "side-walk"