by Benjamin Franklin King (1857 - 1894)
The tall pines pine
Language: English
The tall pines pine, The pawpaws pause And the bumble-bee bumbles all day; The eavesdropper drops, And the grasshopper hops, While gently the cow slips away.
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Text Authorship:
- by Benjamin Franklin King (1857 - 1894), no title [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The Cow Slips Away", 2005 [mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano], from Injun Summah, no. 3 [ sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-02
Line count: 6
Word count: 26