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by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll

Off with her head!" the Queen shouted
Language: English 
"Off with her head!" the Queen shouted 
at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.

"Who cares for you?" said Alice, 
(she had grown to her full size by this time.) 
"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

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Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll, no title, appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 12 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Off with her head!", 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Songs on Verse by Lewis Carroll, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-01-21
Line count: 5
Word count: 38

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