When I am grown to man's estate
I shall be very proud and great,
And tell the other girls and boys
Not to meddle with my toys.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Looking forward", 1960 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Looking forward", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Antonio Giacometti (b. 1957), "Looking forward", 2005 [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Stevenson Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "Looking forward", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Pensando al futuro", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [
Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 27
Quando sarò cresciuto e diventato un uomo
sarò molto grande e fiero
e dirò a tutti gli altri bambini e bambine
di non toccare i miei giochi.
