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© by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986) and by Wolcott Gibbs (1902 - 1958)

Declaration of independence
 (Sung text for setting by C. Dougherty)
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Language: English 
He will just do nothing at all
 [ ... ]
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.
Note: Wolcott Gibbs writes in Backward Ran Sentences that the text was sent to him by a young mother he knew who took it down from her son's singing in the bathtub. The text is therefore sometimes attributed to Wolcott Gibbs. It was modified from its original form by Celius Dougherty.


Composition:

    Set to music by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Declaration of independence", published 1939 [ SSA chorus a cappella ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), copyright © 1939 by New Yorker
  • by Wolcott Gibbs (1902 - 1958), copyright © 1939 by New Yorker

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