by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
When that I was and a little tiny boy
Language: English
Our translations: CAT
When that I was and a little tiny boy, [With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man's estate, [With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas! to wive, [With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, With toss-pots still had drunken heads, For the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world [begun]2, [With]1 hey, ho, the wind and the rain, But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.
D. Amram sets stanzas 1-2, 5
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2 Amram: "began"
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act V, Scene 1 [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 David Werner Amram (b. 1930), "The wind and the rain", published 1972, stanzas 1-2,5 [ tenor and piano or orchestra ], from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 4, New York, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Garth Baxter (b. 1946), "When that I was and a little tiny boy" [ voice and guitar ], from Four Songs from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mary Grant Carmichael (1851 - 1935), "When that I was a little tiny boy", published 1885 [ SA chorus (or vocal duet for soprano and alto) with piano ], from Six Songs for two voices, from Shakespeare (reissued as Six Shakespeare Songs), no. 5, London : J. Curwen & Sons [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "For the rain it raineth every day" [ high voice and piano ], from Shakespeare Songs, Book III, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "When that I was and a little tiny boy", op. 13 no. 3, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "When that I was a little boy", op. 181 no. 6 (1988) [ counter-tenor, recorder, harpsichord, and violoncello ], from Six by Four, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Clown's song", 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "When that I was and a little boy", 1955 [ voice and lute ], from Songs of the Fool, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "When that I was and a little tiny boy", alternate title: "The wind and the rain", 1977 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Shakespeare Songs, London : Lengnick [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "When that I was and a little tiny boy" [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Four Shakespeare Duets, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "When that I was and a little tiny boy " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "For the rain, it raineth every day", op. 29 no. 5, published 1937 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of the Clown, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), "The wind and the rain", 1965 [ voice and piano ], from Four Shakespeare Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Hey, ho, the wind and the rain", op. 23 no. 5 (1919), published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Five Shakespeare Songs (Second Set), no. 5, London, Boosey [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "With hey, ho, the wind and the rain", op. 60 no. 2 (1909) [ voice and guitar or piano ], from the incidental music to Loppiaisaatto = Trettondagsafton (Twelfth Night), no. 2, also set in Swedish (Svenska) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The rain it raineth every day", op. 65 no. 3 (1896), published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Bulgarian (Български), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pančo Haralanov Vladigerov.
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- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Edvard Lembcke (1815 - 1897) , no title ; composed by Peter Arnold Heise.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , no title ; composed by Paul Angerer, Walter Braunfels, Wilhelm Killmayer, Wilhelm Petersen, Robert Schumann.
- Also set in Norwegian (Bokmål), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Catharinus Elling.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinsky (1886 - 1955) ; composed by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Carl August Hagberg (1810 - 1864) ; composed by Jean Sibelius.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
- POL Polish (Polski) (Józef Komierowski) , no title
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 154