by James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
I know a girl
Language: English
I know a girl, And a girl knows me, And the owl says, what ? And the owl says, who ? But what we know We both agree That nobody else Shall hear or see, It's all between Herself and me : To wit ? said the owl, To woo, said I, To-what, to-wit, to-woo !
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Text Authorship:
- by James Stephens (1882 - 1950), "The canal bank", appears in The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin, first published 1915 [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 M. Bowles , "The canal bank", published <<1959 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Five Songs on Poems by James Stephens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horace Lapp (b. 1904), "I know a girl", 1964 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothy Parke , "The canal bank", 1951 [ voice and piano ], from A Honeycombe [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anthony Strilko (b. 1931), "The canal bank", published <<1969 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-22
Line count: 13
Word count: 52