I always remember your beautiful flowers And the beautiful kimono you wore When you sat on the couch With that tigerish crouch And told me you loved me no more What I cannot remember is how I felt When you were unkind All I know is, if you were unkind now I should not mind. Ah me, the power to feel exaggerated, Angry and sad The years have taken from me, Softly I go now, pad pad.
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Text Authorship:
- by Stevie Smith (1903 - 1971), "Pad, pad", appears in Harold's Leap, first published 1950 [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 John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "Pad, pad", op. 126 no. 6 (1976) [ mixed chorus and woodwind quintet ], from Seven Poems of Stevie Smith, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 - 1983), "Pad, pad", 1948, published 1948 [ voice and piano ], from Stevie Smith Songs, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]
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