by Robert Graves (1895 - 1985), as John Doyle
Nine of the clock, oh!
Language: English
Nine of the clock, oh! Wake my lazy head! Your shoes of red morocco, Your silk bedgown; Rouse, rouse, speck-eyed Mary From your high bed! A yawn, a smile, sleepy-starey Mary climbs down. "Good-morning to my brothers, Good-day to the Sun, Haloo, haloo to the lily white sheep That up the mountain run."
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Graves (1895 - 1985), as John Doyle, no title, appears in Country Sentiment, in Nine o'clock, part 1, first published 1920 [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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Nine of the clock", published 1938 [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano], from the collection A First Volume of Ten Songs, no. 6, London: Oxford University Press [text verified 1 time]
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