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When all the world is young, lad

Language: English

When all the world is young, lad,
  And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
  And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
  And round the world away!
Young blood must have its course, lad,
  And every dog his day.

When all the world is old, lad,
  And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
  And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
  The spent and maimed among;
God grant you find one face there,
  You loved when all was young.

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Text Authorship:

by Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), "Young and Old", appears in The Water-Babies, first published 1862-3 [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 Thomas Anderton (1836 - 1903), "Young and Old", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], London: Hutchings & Romer [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841 - 1897), "When all the world was young", published 1874 [ baritone and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Dora Estella Bright (1863 - 1951), "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs, London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred James Caldicott (1842 - 1897), "When all the world is young", published 1881 [ voice and piano ], London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Arthur Challinor , "When all the world is young", published 1915 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], Glasgow: Bayley & Ferguson [sung text not yet checked]
by Beryl J. Colechin, née Bainbridge (b. 1919), "When all was young", 1963 [ unison chorus, SSA chorus, AAT chorus, or counter-tenor solo with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Irvin Cooper , "Young and Old", published 1955 [ SSAB chorus a cappella ], New York: Carl Fischer [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir (1852 - 1935), "When all the world is young", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], London: Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
by John Michael Diack (1869 - 1946), "When all the world is young, Lad" [ SA chorus and piano ], an arrangement of a melody by Brahms; New York: Carl Fischer [sung text not yet checked]
by Vivian John Herman Ellis (1903 - 1996), "When all the world was young", published 1963 [ voice and piano ], from Songs from "The Water Babies", London: Boosey & Hawkes ; text adapted by composer [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles W. Getchell (b. 1929) and by Raymond J. Parfrey (b. 1928), "Young and Old", 1976 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Victoriana [sung text not yet checked]
possibly by Richard Corney Grain (1844 - 1895), "When all the world is young, lad", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], London, James Bath; note: composer given only as C. Grain in catalog [sung text not yet checked]
by (Isador) George Henschel (1850 - 1934), "When all the world is young, Lad", op. 36 no. 2, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Three Songs from Kingsley's "Water-Babies", no. 2, Hamburg, Cranz, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Lee Herts , "When all the world is young", published 1946 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], Chicago: H. T. FitzSimons [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugh Reginald Hulbert (1884 - ?), "When all the world is young", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], London: Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
by Edith James , "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "When all the world is young", published 1913 [ tenor and piano ], from Album of Five Tenor Songs, London: Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Marshall , "Young and Old", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], New York: Composers Music Corp [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Boston: Oliver Ditson [sung text checked 1 time]
by Harold Noble (1903 - 1998), "Round the world away", published 1952 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ], London: Ascherberg, Hopwood, and Crew [sung text not yet checked]
by Elizabeth Philp (1827 - 1885), "When all the world is young", published c1868, first performed 1868 [ voice and piano ], London: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
by John Pointer (d. 1934), "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1912 [ SATB chorus a cappella or soprano (or tenor) solo ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Charlotte Alington Pye (1830 - 1869), as Claribel, "When all the world is young", published 1887 [ voices and piano ], NY: Harper in the collection Franklin square song collection [sung text not yet checked]
by Peter Petrovich Schenk , "When all the world is young", published 1920 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], Chicago: Winston, in The David Bispham Song Book [sung text not yet checked]
by Bothwell Thomson , "The old, old song", published 1904 [ alto or baritone and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 1, London, Novello [sung text not yet checked]
by Philip Benjamin Tomblings (b. 1902), "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1941 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], London: Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
by J. B. Waldeck , "A life's love", published 1880 [ voice and piano ], London: Joseph Williams [sung text not yet checked]
by Joel Weiss , "Young and Old", 1994 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Wharton Wharton , "When all the world is young", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Boston: Oliver Ditson, in the collection Folksongs and Other Songs for Children [sung text not yet checked]
by Mary H. Wilson , "When all the world is young, Lad", published 1863 [ voice and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George Henschel.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-18
Line count: 16
Word count: 99