by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
There was an Old Man with a Beard
Language: English
There was an Old Man with a Beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), no title, appears in A Book of Nonsense, first published 1861 [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), "An Old Man with a Beard", 2002 [ soprano and piano ], from "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "The old man with a beard", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), as Karel Drofnatski, "The absent barber", published 1960 [ voice and piano ], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-07
Line count: 5
Word count: 34