by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Three plum buns
Language: English
Three plum buns To eat here at the stile In the clover meadow, For we have walked a mile. One for you, and one for me, And one left over: Give it to the boy who shouts To scare sheep from the clover.
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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 John Francis Holcombe Read (b. 1821), "Three plum buns", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 44