Little boy blue, come blow me your horn,
the cows in the meadow, the sheep in the corn.

[What's gone with]1 the boy that looks after the sheep?
He's under the haycock, fast asleep.

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¹ Coates: "But where is"

Text Authorship:

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [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 Harriet Abrams (1760 - 1825), "Little boy blue", subtitle: "A favorite glee for three voices", published 1799? [ SSB trio a cappella ], London : L. Lavenu [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Eric Coates (1886 - 1957), "Little Boy Blue", 1924 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

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