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© by Leslie Morgan Collins (1914 - 2014)

Creole Girl
 (Sung text for setting by H. Adams)
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Language: English 
When you dance
 [ ... ]
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Confirmed with Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, herausgegeben und übertragen von Eva Hesse und Paridam von dem Knesebeck, München: Nymphenburger Verlag, 1953, page 26.


Composition:

    Set to music by H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), "Creole Girl", from Nightsongs, no. 6

Text Authorship:

  • by Leslie Morgan Collins (1914 - 2014), "Creole girl", copyright ©

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Paridam von dem Knesebeck) (Eva Hesse) , "Kreolin", appears in Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, copyright ©

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 61

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