I too have a garret of old playthings. I have tin soldiers with broken arms upstairs. I have wagons with the wheels gone upstairs. I have guns and a drum, and a jumping jack and a magic lantern. And dust is on them, and I never look at them upstairs. I too have a garret of old playthings.
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Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Upstairs", appears in Cornhuskers, first published 1918 [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 Elizabeth Alexander , "Upstairs", 1982 [ high voice and piano ], from A Garret of Old Playthings, no. 1, Seafarer Press [sung text checked 1 time]
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