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Monday's child, Tuesday's child, Wednesday's child, Thursday's child, Friday's child, Saturday's child, Sunday's child. Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. Monday's child, Tuesday's child, Wednesday's child, Thursday's child, Friday's child, Saturday's child, Sunday's child.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by John (Milford) Rutter, CBE (b. 1945), "Monday's child", published 1974 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Five Childhood Lyrics, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Montagskind", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 83
Montagskind, Dienstagskind, Mittwochskind, Donnerstagskind, Freitagskind, Samstagskind, Sonntagskind. Montagskind, schön anzusehn, Dienstagskind, in Anmut schön, Mittwochskind trägt großes Leid, Donnerstagskinds Weg noch weit, Freitagskind gibt gerne her, Samstagskind, sein Los ist schwer, und das Kind, geboren am Tage des Herrn, ist reizend und gut und lächelt gern. Montagskind, Dienstagskind, Mittwochskind, Donnerstagskind, Freitagskind, Samstagskind, Sonntagskind.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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- a text in English from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 53