by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Sing me a song
Language: English
Sing me a song-- What shall I sing? -- Three merry sisters Dancing in a ring, Light and fleet upon their feet As birds upon the wing. Tell me a tale -- What shall I tell? Two mournful sisters, And a tolling knell, Tolling ding and tolling dong, Ding dong bell.
R. Foresman sets lines 1-4
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Authorship
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 Laurence Hector Davies , "Sing me a song", published 1961. [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Robert Foresman (1856? - 1932?), "Singing and dancing", published 1931, lines 1-4. [unaccompanied voices] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993), "Sing me a song", published 1957. [unison chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Walter Parratt (1841 - 1924), "Sing me a song", published 1916 [voice and piano], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Sing me a song" [voices and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2007-09-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 49