by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
When church is out
Language: English
When church is out, and Jack and Jill in linked seclusion stray, It takes them two long lonely hours to pick their homeward way; And as 'tis scarcely half a mile, no reason can I find, Why it should take so very long, except that love is blind.
Appeared in Puck magazine.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1861 - 1946), "When church is out", published c1901 [ voice and piano ], from Eleven small songs as unpretentious as the wild rose, no. 5, Chicago : Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-07-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 48