by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Brown (1830 - 1897)
O blackbird, what a boy you are!
Language: English
O blackbird, what a boy you are! How you do go it! Blowing your bugle to that one sweet star... How you do blow it! And does she hear you, blackbird boy, so far? Or is it wasted breath? "Good Lord ! she is so bright To-night !" The blackbird saith.
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Text Authorship:
- by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Brown (1830 - 1897), "Vespers", from The Collected Poems of T. E. Brown, first published 1900 [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 Carl Ernest Bricken (1898 - 1971), "The blackbird", published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from New Songs for New Voices [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872 - 1939), "The blackbird" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mabel Nightingale Woodward (1876 - 1911), "To the blackbird", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Songs, no. 33, Birmingham : Press of the Birmingham Printers [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-12-07
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