by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
If all the world were paper
Language: English
If all the world were paper, And all the sea were ink, If all the trees were bread and cheese, How should we do for drink? If friars had no bald pates, Nor nuns had no dark cloisters, If all the seas were beans and peas, How should we do for oysters? If there had been no projects, Nor none that did great wrongs, If fiddlers shall turn players all, How should we do for songs? If all things were eternal, And nothing their end bringing, If this should be, then how should we Here make an end of singing?
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 David Evan Thomas (b. 1958), "If all the world were paper", published 2004, first performed 2004 [SATB chorus, piano, and incidental percussion], from Earthly Delights, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-09-17
Line count: 16
Word count: 100