© by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The turkey
Language: English
There is nothing more perky [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The turkey", appears in The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, appears in Many Long Years Ago, first published 1936, copyright © [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 Vernon Duke (1903 - 1969), "The turkey", 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo [sung text not yet checked]
- by Timothy Hoekman , "The Turkey", 1995, published 1999 [ counter-tenor or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Nash Menagerie, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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