fatherS
           with yOu the birds with me
                aNd he searched
  but afraid sayiNg
            yoursElf and jacob sand of the sea until he stopped counting
               foR
    and entered hIs
                hE killed him
              dayS then god remembered noah

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Note: can be followed by Satie's song La Diva de l'Empire

Text Authorship:

• by Bible or other Sacred Texts , First Book of Moses (Genesis). [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 Milton Cage (1912 - 1992), "fatherS", 1985, from Sonnekus², no. 5. [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 37