by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
There was an Old Man with a gong
Language: English
There was an Old Man with a gong, Who bumped at it all day long; But they called out, 'O law! You're a horrid old bore!' So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), no title, appears in A Book of Nonsense, first published 1861 [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 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "There was an Old Man with a gong", 1970, rev. 1974 [ 2-part chorus of treble voices, strings, descand recorder, trumpet, percussion, and piano ], from "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "The Old Man with a gong", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures, Schmidt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elis Pehkonen (b. 1942), "There was an Old Man with a gong", published 1972 [ speakers, piano, flute, gong, clarinet, trumpet, and drums ], from Three Limericks [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), as Karel Drofnatski, "Gongdichtung", published 1960 [ voice and piano ], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-05
Line count: 5
Word count: 35