by Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
The factory window song Matches original text
Language: English
Factory windows are always broken. Somebody's always throwing bricks, Somebody's always heaving cinders, Playing ugly Yahoo tricks. Factory windows are always broken. Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone. Factory windows are always broken. Something or other is going wrong. Something is rotten -- I think, in Denmark. End of the factory-window song.
Composition:
- Set to music by Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "The factory window song", 2005, first performed 2005 [ tenor and baritone with violin, viola, cello and piano ], from Here and Gone, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931), "Factory windows are always broken"
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This text was added to the website: 2009-04-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 61