by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Currants on a bush
Language: English
Currants on a bush, And figs upon a stem, And cherries on a bending bough, And Ned to gather them.
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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 I. T. Wilson , "Fruit", published 1928 [ unaccompanied voice ], in The Music Hour, First Book [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 4
Word count: 21