by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green
Language: English
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Beautiful Soup! Beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!
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Authorship
- by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll, no title, appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, Macmillan; chapter 10, first published 1865 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The Mock Turtle's Lament", 1991, published 1996 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from "Alice" Songs, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "The Mock Turtle's song", 1982 [baritone and piano], from Five Lewis Carroll Poems, no. 4, Recital Publ. [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Mockturtle Soup", published 1908 [tenor], from Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong, no. 6 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Henri Bué) , no title
Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller
Text added to the website: 2004-04-27 00:00:00
Last modified: 2015-06-24 15:59:08
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