by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
The coach is at the door at last
Language: English
The coach is at the door at last; The eager children, mounting fast And kissing hands, in chorus sing: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! To house and garden, field and lawn, The meadow-gates we swang upon, To pump and stable, tree and swing, Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! And fare you well for evermore, O ladder at the hayloft door, O hayloft where the cobwebs cling, Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! Crack goes the whip, and off we go; The trees and houses smaller grow; Last, round the woody turn we sing: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Farewell to the farm", 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 George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "Farewell to the farm", published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Crawford , "Farewell to the farm", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethel Crowningshield , "Farewell to the farm", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Farewell to the farm", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Groocock , "The coach is at the door at last", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mabel Wood Hill (1870 - 1954), "Farewell to the farm", published c1902 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Seven songs of Stevenson, no. 5, Cincinnati: J. Church Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Griffen (Griffin?) Shepard (1848 - 1905), "Farewell to the farm", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from A cycle of songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Muriel Thomas , "Farewell to the farm", published 1957 [ medium unison chorus and piano ], from Four songs for children, also set in Welsh (translated by Wil Ifan) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Patrick Williams (1905 - 1985), "Farewell to the farm", published 1971 [ SA chorus or SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-12-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 93