Chipmunk, chipmunk, little and small, Roll your stripes into a ball. White horse, white horse, winter is warm With a shaggy coat for wind and storm. Owl, owl in the hemlock tree, Hoot till morning for all of me. Robber, robber, snug in your den, Pick the bones of our old hen. Lighthouse, lighthouse, tall by the shore, Shine on the shipwreck no more. Maple, maple over this roof, What do you listen to, far off? Train, train around Great Hill, Whistle again and then be still.
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Authorship:
- by Mark van Doren (1894 - 1972) [author's text not yet checked 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 Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "Chipmunk, chipmunk", from Six Lullabies, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Brian Holmes
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