by Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904)
Fair goes the dancing
Language: English
Fair goes the dancing when the sitar's tuned; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high, And we will dance away the hearts of men. The string overstretched breaks, and the music flies The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high.
Text Authorship:
- by Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904) [author's text not yet checked 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 Joseph Taffs , "Fair goes the dancing", published 1923, from Album of Five Songs, no. 1. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-01-05
Line count: 6
Word count: 49