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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Doctor Foster
Language: English 
Doctor Foster 
Went to Gloucester,
In a shower of rain;
He stepped in a puddle,
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again.

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•   H. Cowell 

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Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester", Mother Goose [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester", L. 538 no. 4 (1937) [ voice and piano ], from Six songs on Mother Goose rhymes, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Doctor Foster", op. 550 (1959) [sung text not yet checked]

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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak (1887 - 1964) ; composed by Zara Aleksandrovna Levina.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-10-31
Line count: 6
Word count: 26

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