by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Language: English 
Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl.
Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin.
Somewhere is a man looking for a red-headed girl and some day maybe he
will look into your eyes for a restaurant cashier and find a lover, maybe.	
Around and around go ten thousand men hunting a red headed girl with two 
freckles on her chin.
I have seen them hunting, hunting.
  Shake back your hair; let go your laughter.

Composition:

    Set to music by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Red-Headed Girl", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ]

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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 80