© by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Rat Riddles
Language: English
There was a gray rat looked at me [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Rat Riddles", appears in Good Morning, America, first published 1928, copyright © [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 Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901 - 1953), "Rat Riddles", published 1973 [ contralto, oboe, percussion, piano, with or without orchestral ostinato ], from Three Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 136