by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878 - 1962)
Stow‑on‑the‑Wold
Language: English
I met an old man at Stow-on-the-Wold, Who shook and shivered as though with cold. And he said to me : " Six sons I had, And each was a tall and a lively lad. "But all of them went to France with the guns, They went together, my six tall sons. " Six sons I had, six sons I had And each was a tall and a lively lad."
Text Authorship:
- by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878 - 1962), "Stow-on-the-Wold", appears in Whin, first published 1918 [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 Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "Stow-on-the-Wold", op. 34 no. 4 (1918) [ voice and piano ], from Whin: Six Songs, no. 4, fragment [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Stow-on-the-Wold" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-07
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Word count: 69