"Cherries, ripe cherries!" the old woman cried, In her snowy-white apron, and basket beside; And the little boys came, Eyes shining, cheeks red, To buy bags of cherries To eat with their bread.
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Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Bread and cherries", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 1. Up and Down, no. 12, first published 1913 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Bread and cherries", c1921, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A Second Volume of Ten Songs, no. 3, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
- by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Bread and cherries", published 1929 [ voice and piano ], in The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade [sung text not yet checked]
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