by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our...
Language: English
Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town.
Far off
Everybody loved her.
So we all love a wild girl keeping a hold
On a dream she wants.
Nobody knows now where Chick Lorimer went.
Nobody knows why she packed her trunk. . a few
old things
And is gone,
Gone with her little chin
Thrust ahead of her
And her soft hair blowing careless
From under a wide hat,
Dancer, singer, a laughing passionate lover.
Were there ten men or a hundred hunting Chick?
Were there five men or fifty with aching hearts?
Everybody loved Chick Lorimer.
Nobody knows where she's gone.
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Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Gone", appears in Chicago Poems, first published 1916 [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 Kurt Erickson , "Gone", 2007, first performed 2008 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Chicago Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rupert Hughes (1872 - 1956), "Gone", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Five Homely Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sam Raphling (b. 1910), "Gone", published 1952 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poems by Carl Sandburg, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alec Wilder (1907 - 1980), "Chick Lorimer: Gone", published 1953 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-06
Line count: 18
Word count: 102