by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
You mustn't swim till you're six weeks...
Language: English
You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals. Are bad for baby seals, dear rat, As bad as bad can be. But splash and grow strong, And you can't be wrong, Child of the Open Sea!
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Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title [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 Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Two Seal Songs, no. 2, London : Chappell & Co. Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]
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