Nonsense song (Robert Morrison Stults)

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(Posted 2023-12-12) CPDL #78129:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 496 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Nonsense song
Composer: Robert Morrison Stults
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1917 Theodore Presser Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come away, come away, come away!
If you don’t want to come away, stay where you are.

Ding, dong, ding, dong, listen to the bell!
Some say a pussy cat has tumbled in the well,
Where the “Old Oaken Bucket” is covered with slime,
Was suspended on a sweep for a very long time.
And the cow jumped over the moon, they say,
While the little Boy Blue slept under the hay;
It is hard, very hard, to believe it all true,
But to question their veracity would never do.

Ah, distinctly I remember,
It was in the bleak December,
And each separate, dying ember
Wrought his ghost upon the floor.
So it seems, I think we “oughter,”
Every mother’s son and daughter,
Go and get some soap and water,
And proceed to scrub the floor.

We will now go back to the beginning,
For that is the usual custom.