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Texts by C. Smith set in Art Songs and Choral Works

 § Author § 

Cicely Fox Smith (1882 - 1954)

Text Collections:

  • Songs in Sail

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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  • A dog's life (Oh, a sailor's life's a dog's life, an' that's the truth, says Bill) - M. Head
  • All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go - H. Procter-Gregg (So long)
  • A sea burthen (A ship swinging as the tide swings up and down) (from Songs in Sail) - M. Head, J. Keel
  • A ship swinging as the tide swings up and down (from Songs in Sail) - M. Head, J. Keel (A sea burthen)
  • Back to Hilo (There's a dark an' dirty wine-shop on a waterfront I know) - M. Head
  • Have you heard the torrent leaping from the mountain to the sea? - C. Stanford (Wales Forever)
  • I fell in love with a Limehouse lass (from Songs in Sail) (Limehouse Reach) - M. Head, H. Procter-Gregg
  • Lavender Pond (Never a swallow wets his wing) - M. Head
  • Limehouse Reach (Now, I fell in love with a Limehouse lass) (from Songs in Sail) - M. Head, H. Procter-Gregg
  • Never a swallow wets his wing - M. Head (Lavender Pond)
  • Now, I fell in love with a Limehouse lass (from Songs in Sail) - M. Head, H. Procter-Gregg (Limehouse Reach)
  • Oh, a sailor's life's a dog's life, an' that's the truth, says Bill - M. Head
  • Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find - E. Moeran (The North Sea ground)
  • Saint George he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell - C. Stanford (Saint George Of England)
  • Saint George Of England (Saint George he was a fighting man, as all the tales do tell) - C. Stanford
  • She sailed out o' Sunderland with a cargo o' rails — - H. Procter-Gregg (Steel rails)
  • So long (All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go) - H. Procter-Gregg
  • St. Andrew's Eve (The last night of November) - C. Stanford
  • Steel rails (She sailed out o' Sunderland with a cargo o' rails —) - H. Procter-Gregg
  • Sweethearts and Wives (The very first voyage as ever I made) - M. Head
  • The last night of November - C. Stanford (St. Andrew's Eve)
  • The North Sea ground (Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find) - E. Moeran
  • There's a dark an' dirty wine-shop on a waterfront I know - M. Head
  • The very first voyage as ever I made - M. Head
  • The wine of life (‘When I've left off carin' the way I do) - H. Procter-Gregg
  • Wales Forever (Have you heard the torrent leaping from the mountain to the sea?) - C. Stanford
  • ‘When I've left off carin' the way I do - H. Procter-Gregg (The wine of life)

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