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by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Translation © by Sylvain Labartette
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy...
Language: English
Available translation(s): FRE
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond. And my ship it keeps a turning all around and all about, But when I'm a little older I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow as little as the dolly on the helm And the dolly I intend to come alive And with him beside to help me it's a sailing I shall go, It's a sailing on the water where the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a divie divie dive. O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds And you'll hear the water singing at the prow. For beside the dolly sailor I'm to voyage and explore To land upon the island where no dolly was before And I'll fire the penny cannon on the bow!
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Authorship
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "My ship and I", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [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 Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "My ship and I", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse" [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Harvey Clements (b. 1910), "My ship and I", published 1937 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gladys M. Cohen (1907 - 1996), "My ship and I", published 1956, under the name Guirne Javal [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Crawford , "My ship and I", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethel Crowningshield , "My ship and I", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858 - 1940?), "My ship and I", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "My ship and I", 1915, published 1917 [ medium voice and piano ], from Five Little Songs, no. 3, Éd. Heugel, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by J. Frederick Keel (1871 - 1954), "My ship and I", published 1953 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "The captain", 1902 [ voice or vocal quartet and piano ], from More daisies: new songs of childhood, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873 - 1953), "My ship and I", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Five Children's Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Bolton O'Donoghue , "My ship and I", published 1928-30 [ unaccompanied voice ], in The Music Hour, Book 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "My ship and I", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Three Leaves from a Child's Garden, S. Acott, Harris & Co [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "My ship and I", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Griffen (Griffin?) Shepard (1848 - 1905), "My ship and I", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from A cycle of songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "My ship and me", op. 30 no. 9, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Léna (1859 - 1928) ; composed by Reynaldo Hahn.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Sylvain Labartette) , "Moi et mon bateau", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-10
Line count: 15
Word count: 158
Moi et mon bateau
Language: French (Français) after the English
C'est bien moi qui suis capitaine d'un tout petit bateau D'un bateau qui cingle sur l'étang. Et mon bateau, il vire de partout, n'importe où. Mais quand je serai un peu plus grand, je trouverai le secret. pour que mon vaisseau mette voile plus loin. Car j'ai bien l'intention de devenir aussi petit que mon nounours à la barre, Et à ce nounours, je lui donnerai vie, Et, lui à mes côtés pour m'aider, je m'en irai à la voile, À la voile sur l'eau où les douces brises soufflent, Et le bateau va fendre, fendre, fendre l'eau. C'est bien alors moi que tu verras voguer entre les joncs et les roseaux, Et tu pourras entendre chanter l'eau à la proue. Car, auprès de mon petit matelot, je suis prêt à voyager, explorer Débarquer sur l'île où aucun nounours n'est allé avant, Et je ferai tonner le petit canon à l'avant !
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- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "My ship and I", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2007-11-15
Line count: 15
Word count: 152