Seven Somewhat Silly Songs

Song Cycle by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)

1. A little lamb

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2. Samson Agonistes

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3. Comment  [sung text not yet checked]

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
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First published in New York World, August 16, 1925

4. The fly  [sung text not yet checked]

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God, in his wisdom
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5. I'm nobody  [sung text not yet checked]

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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd [banish us]1, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell [your]2 name the livelong [day]3
To an admiring bog!

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Ich bin ein Niemand! Wer bist Du?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Io non sono nessuno, e tu?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Bacon, G. Coates: "advertise"
2 Bacon, G. Coates: "one's"
3 Bacon, G. Coates: "June"

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6. One perfect rose   [sung text not yet checked]

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A single flow'r he sent me, since we met
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First published in Life, January 4, 1923

7. Limericks

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Total word count: 166