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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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Text 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]
  • by Robert Foresman (1856? - 1932?), "Singing and dancing", published 1931, lines 1-4 [ unaccompanied voices ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993), "Sing me a song", published 1957 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Walter Parratt (1841 - 1924), "Sing me a song", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Sing me a song" [ voices and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-09-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 49

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