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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Foster

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Stephen Collins Foster (1826 - 1864)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A dream of my mother and my home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Ah! may the red rose live alway (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Ah! My Child! (Ah mon fils) (Text: Stephen Collins Foster after Eugène Scribe)
  • Angelina Baker (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Annie, my own love (Text: Charles P. Shiras)
  • A penny for your thoughts (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • A soldier in de colored brigade (Text: George Cooper)
  • A thousand miles from home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Away down Souf (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Beautiful child of song (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Beautiful Dreamer (Text: Stephen Collins Foster) CHI
  • Better times are coming (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Bring my brother back to me (Text: George Cooper)
  • Bury me in the morning, mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Choral harp (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Come where my love lies dreaming (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Come with thy sweet voice again (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Comrades, fill no glass for me (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Cora Dean (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Dearer than life (Text: George Cooper)
  • De Camptown Races (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Dolcy Jones (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Dolly Day (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Don't be idle (Text: Mary Ann Kidder)
  • Don't bet your money on de Shanghai (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Down among the cane brakes (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Ellen Bayne (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Eulalie (Text: H. S. Cornwall)
  • Eva (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Fairy Belle (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Farewell mother dear (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Farewell my Lilly dear (Text: Stephen Collins Foster) ITA
  • Farewell! old cottage (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Farewell sweet mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • For the dear old Flag I die (Text: George Cooper)
  • For thee, Love, for thee (Text: William Henry McCarthy)
  • Gentle Annie (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Gentle Lena Clare (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Give the stranger happy cheer (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Give this to Mother (Text: S. W. Harding)
  • Give us this day our daily bread (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Gwine to run all night (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Happy hours at home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Hard times, come again no more (Text: Stephen Collins Foster) IRI ITA
  • He leadeth me beside still waters (Text: Joseph Henry Gilmore)
  • He'll come home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Hurrah for the Bigler boys (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I cannot sing tonight (Text: George F. Banister ‎ )
  • I'd be a fairy (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • If you've only got a moustache (Text: George Cooper)
  • I'll be a soldier (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I'll be home tomorrow (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I'm nothing but a plain old soldier (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • In the eye abides the heart (Text: Stephen Collins Foster after Franz von Kobell)
  • I see her still in my dreams (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I will be true to thee (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I would not die in Spring time (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • I would not die in Summer time (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Jenny June (Text: George Cooper)
  • Jenny's coming o'er the green (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Katy Bell (Text: George Cooper)
  • Kissing in the dark (Text: George Cooper)
  • Kiss me, dear mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Larry's good bye (Text: George Cooper)
  • Laura Lee (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Leave me with my mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Lena, our loved one is gone (Text: George Cooper)
  • Lily Ray (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Linda has departed (Text: William Henry McCarthy)
  • Linger in blissful repose (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Little Belle Blair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Little Ella's an angel (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Little Ella (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Little Jenny Dow (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Little Mac! Little Mac! You're the very man (Text: J. Marsh; Henrietta Angelica Foster Wick Thornton)
  • Lizzie dies to-night (Text: Mary Bynon Reese)
  • Lou'siana Belle (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Lula is gone (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Maggie by my side (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Mary loves the flowers (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Massa's in de cold ground (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Mein Alt-Kentucky-Heim (Text: Anonymous after Stephen Collins Foster) [x] ENG ITA
  • Melinda May (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Merry little birds are we (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Mine is the mourning heart (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Molly dear, good night (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Molly do you love me? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Mother, thou'rt faithful to me (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Text: George Cooper)
  • My angel boy, I cannot see thee die (Text: John Brougham)
  • My boy is coming from the war (Text: George Cooper)
  • My Brodder Gum (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • My hopes have departed forever (Text: James Gates Percival)
  • My loved one and my own (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • My Old Kentucky Home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster) ITA
  • My wife is a most knowing woman (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Nell and I (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Nelly Bly (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Nelly was a lady (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • No home. No home (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • None shall weep a tear for me (Text: Richard Henry Wilde)
  • No one to love (Text: Stephen Collins Foster; S. T. Gordon)
  • Nothing but a plain old soldier (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Oh! Boys carry me 'long (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Oh! Lemuel! (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Oh! Susanna (Text: Stephen Collins Foster after Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Oh! Tell me of my mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Oh! there's no such girl as mine (Text: Samuel Lover)
  • Oh! 'Tis glorious! (Text: Edward Nevin)
  • Oh! why am I so happy? (Text: Francis D. Murtha)
  • Old Black Joe (Text: Stephen Collins Foster) ITA
  • Old Dog Tray (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Old memories (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Old Uncle Ned (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Once I loved thee, Mary dear (Text: William Cullen Crookshank)
  • Onward and upward (Text: George Cooper)
  • Open thy lattice, love (Text: George Pope Morris)
  • Our bright, bright summer days are gone (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Our darling Kate (Text: John Mahon)
  • Our Willie, dear, is dying (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Over the river (Text: H. C. )
  • Parthenia to Ingomar (Text: William Henry McCarthy)
  • Poor drooping maiden (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Praise the Lord! (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Ring, ring de banjo (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Sadly to mine heart appealing (Text: Eliza Sheridan Carey)
  • Seek and ye shall find (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • She was all the world to me (Text: ? Duffy, Dr.)
  • Sitting by my own cabin door (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Slumber my darling (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Somebody's coming to see me tonight (Text: George Cooper)
  • Some folks (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Stand up for the truth (Text: J. C.)
  • Stay summer breath (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Suffer little children to come unto me (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Summer longing (Text: Denis Florence MacCarthy)
  • Sweet Emerald Isle that I love so well (Text: George Cooper)
  • Sweet little maid of the mountain (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair (Text: Charles G. Eastman)
  • Tears bring thoughts of Heaven (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Tell me love of thy early dreams (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Tell me of the angels, mother (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • That's what's the matter (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The Abolition Show (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The angels are singing unto me (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The beautiful shore (Text: ?, Mrs. O. S. Matteson)
  • The bright hills of Glory (Text: Mary Ann Kidder)
  • The Glendy Burk (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The Great Baby Show (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The hour for thee and me (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The little ballad girl (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The love I bear to thee (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The merry, merry month of May (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The pure, the bright, the beautiful (Text: Charles Dickens)
  • There are plenty of fish in the sea (Text: George Cooper)
  • There's a good time coming (Text: Charles Mackay)
  • There was a time (Text: James D. Byrne)
  • The soldier's home (Text: George Cooper)
  • The song of all songs (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The spirit of my song (Text: Metta Victoria Fuller)
  • The Swanee River (Old Folks at Home) (Text: William Prescott Foster) GER
  • The village maiden (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The voices that are gone (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The White House chair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • The wife (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Thou art the queen of my song (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Turn not away! (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Under the willow she's sleeping (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Virginia Belle (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Voice of bygone days (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Was my brother in the battle? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Way Down in Ca-i-ro (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • We are coming Father Abraam: 300,000 more (Text: James Sloane Gibbons)
  • We'll all meet our Savior (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • We'll still keep marching on (Text: Mary Ann Kidder)
  • We'll tune our hearts (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • We've a million in the field (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • We will keep a bright lookout (Text: George Cooper)
  • What does every good child say? (Text: Anonymous)
  • What must a Fairy's dream be (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • What shall the harvest be? (Text: Emily Sullivan Oakey)
  • When dear friends are gone (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • When old friends were here (Text: George Cooper)
  • When the bowl goes round (Text: George Cooper)
  • When this dreadful war is ended (Text: George Cooper) ITA
  • Where has Lula gone? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Where is thy spirit, Mary? (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Why have my loved ones gone (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Why no one to love (Text: Stephen Collins Foster; S. T. Gordon)
  • Willie has gone to war (Text: George Cooper)
  • Willie my brave (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Willie's gone to Heaven (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Willie, we have missed you (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
  • Wilt thou be gone, Love? (Text: William Shakespeare)
  • Wilt thou be true (Text: George Cooper)

Last update: 2023-05-10 16:32:32

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