by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Shake back your hair, O red‑headed girl
Language: English
Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl. Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin. Somewhere is a man looking for a red-headed girl and some day maybe he will look into your eyes for a restaurant cashier and find a lover, maybe. Around and around go ten thousand men hunting a red headed girl with two freckles on her chin. I have seen them hunting, hunting. Shake back your hair; let go your laughter.
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Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier", appears in Smoke and Steel, first published 1920 [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), "Red-Headed Girl", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karol Rathaus (1895 - 1954), "Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier", op. 70 no. 3, published 1957 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 80