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by (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)

Jenny kissed me when we met
Language: English 
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your [list]1, put that in:
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kissed me.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   S. Wilkinson 

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1 Wilkinson: "book"

Confirmed with Merlyn. Jaargang 2, Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1963-1964, page 3


Text Authorship:

  • by (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859), "Rondeau" [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 Phyllis Batchelor (1915 - 1999), "Jenny Kissed Me", copyright © 2018 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francis Boott (1813 - 1904), "Jenny kissed me" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rhoda Sinclair Coghill (1903 - 2000), "Jenny", 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Jenny kissed me", 1984 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 - 1984), "Jenny kiss'd me", 1921, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 2, Glasgow : Paterson Sons & Co. confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "Jenny kissed me", op. 49 no. 1 (1977) [ baritone or bass or mezzo-soprano with string trio or piano or guitar, violoncello and flute obbligato ], from Two Leigh Hunt Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Jenny kissed me ", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Four Love Songs, no. 4, London, Chappell & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dorothy Pilling (1910 - 1998), "Jenny kiss'd me" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a score [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Jenny kissed me" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "Jenny kissed me", op. 34 (Six Folk Songs of Different Nationalities) no. 5, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Boston : Arthur P. Schmidt and Co. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joel Weiss , "Jenny kiss'd me", 1993 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Stephen Wilkinson (b. 1919), "Kiss" [ voice and piano ], from Eternal Summer, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Jakobus Cornelis Bloem (1887 - 1966) , "Rondeau" ; composed by Léon Orthel.
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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-24
Line count: 8
Word count: 52

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