© by Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014)
The Caged Bird
Language: English
A free bird leaps [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014), appears in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, first published 1983, copyright © [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 Joyce Solomon Moorman (b. 1946), "The Caged Bird", copyright © 2017 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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