by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991)
Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe!
Language: English
Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe! A child for the gallows. Oh will ye buy sweet fine plums? Charms against the plague, oh will ye buy sweet fine plums? New oysters, just opened oysters, new oysters. Buy a gallows toy made very like the block! Buy a gallows toy made very like the block. Ale by the tankard! Chestnuts, hot! Drink by the tankard, ‘ave some ale! Oh will ye buy a fine gallows toy? A toy made very like the block! A charm against the plague! Oh, will ye buy sweet fine plums? New oysters, just opened oysters. For the gallows—strawberries ripe.
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Text Authorship:
- by Florence Stevenson (1922 - 1991), "Chorus of Vendors", written 1975, appears in The Chronicle of Nine Days of Jane Grey, no. 16a [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 Arnold Rosner (1945 - 2013), "Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe", op. 81 no. 5 (1984), from opera The Chronicle of Nine, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
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