© by Mari Evans (b. 1923)
The alarm clock
Language: English
Alarm clock [ ... ]
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2 Baker: "away"
3 Baker: "stood"
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Note: in Baker's setting, in stanza 2, line 5, "away" becomes "a long way" in the repetition.
1 Baker: "morning"2 Baker: "away"
3 Baker: "stood"
Text Authorship:
- by Mari Evans (b. 1923), "The alarm clock", appears in I am a Black Woman, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., first published 1970, copyright © [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 David Nathaniel Baker, Jr. (b. 1931), "The alarm clock", from The Black Experience, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-11
Line count: 28
Word count: 81