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Author: Gary Bachlund

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A bit of seed was lying around ENG GER
A cuckoo's egg dropped from a tree ENG GER
A Government Song (The way to manage debt) - G. Bachlund
A great genius (There was a briquette, a great genius) ENG GER
A great star shall fall in my bosom... ENG GER
A hedgehog sat on a stone ENG GER
A herring loved an oyster ENG GER
A Jew is made out of twenty-eight percent fear ENG YDS
A liar's tale (I will sing to you and will not dissemble) ENG GER
A Litany of Finger Pointing (Who's responsible for the plague?) - G. Bachlund
A Litany of Symptoms (I do not like the way I feel) - G. Bachlund
A little dog, that hadn't recently ENG GER
A little feather flew over the land ENG GER
A little fellow stands in the woods ENG GER
a little man ENG GER
A little piece of Brie cheese ENG GER
A little song (A little song, how does it take shape ) ENG GER
A little song, how does it take shape ENG GER
A little spark would soon surprise ENG GER
A little stone rolled down snappily ENG GER
A lullaby (to be sung by moonlight for well-read and sensitive people) (My mother has geese) ENG GER
A manly stamp (A manly stamp had a lovely experience) ENG GER
A manly stamp had a lovely experience ENG GER
A Noble crowd (A Noble crowd) ENG GER
A Noble crowd ENG GER
A philosophic mouse (A philosophic mouse praised Mother Nature) ENG GER
A philosophic mouse praised Mother Nature ENG GER
A Required End Rhyme (On the mountain stands a tree branch-less) ENG GER
A sigh was skating on the evening ice ENG GER
A soap bubble hovered as it flew ENG GER
A stormy night (The stormy night had wedded us) ENG GER
A sweet little crab and a kangaroo ENG GER
A tailor's hand found a sewing pin ENG GER
A tragic tale (A herring loved an oyster) ENG GER
A water drop fell from the skies ENG GER
A water mouse and toad ENG GER
A weasel sat ENG GER
A white star sings a death song ENG GER
A yellow lemon (There was a yellow lemon) ENG GER
Abel (Cain's eyes are not pleasing to God ) ENG GER
Advertisement (Wanted: a puppy) ENG GER
Aesop and the Donkey (The donkey spoke to Aesop ) ENG GER
Always in morning come the pain-filled colors ENG GER
Aunty Jellyfish and the Elephant (Aunty Jellyfish swam to shore) ENG GER
Aunty Jellyfish swam to shore ENG GER
Away in a basin (Away in a basin ) - G. Bachlund
Away in a basin
G. Bachlund: Away in a basin

Between you and me (In the chair, you, and I at your feet) ENG GER
Blows the wind? ENG GER
Bureaucracy (A sweet little crab and a kangaroo ) ENG GER
Cain's eyes are not pleasing to God ENG GER
Caresses (I love those first anxious, tender caresses) ENG GER
Chutzpah (A Jew is made out of twenty-eight percent fear ) ENG YDS
Cigarette Smoke (My first love was a hero) - G. Bachlund
Clever Death, Stupid Death (Clever Death's enormous voice ) - G. Bachlund
Clever Death's enormous voice
G. Bachlund: Clever Death, Stupid Death

Clouds (In the night sky) ENG GER
Come to him (You who weep, come to God because he too weeps ) ENG FRE
Cowardly thoughts ENG GER
Crapülinski and Waschlapski ENG GER
Dark days are come
G. Bachlund: Romance Novel

Day (So come, whatever must come!) ENG GER
Do as I say, not as I do
G. Bachlund: The Double Standard Song

Fall (The leaves are falling, falling as from afar) ENG GER
Father, there is no threat to you ENG GER
filth (filth! filth! o filth! ) ENG GER
filth! filth! o filth! ENG GER
Folksong (If I were two birds) ENG GER
Friend, say what would you drink? ENG GER
Good king Magarone placed a fine gem ENG GER
Had God wanted me otherwise ENG GER
Half-done Job (Serfdom was only a part of it) ENG GER
Heavenly Days (I come down to earth from heavens above) - G. Bachlund
Hedgehog and Hedge-hag (A hedgehog sat on a stone) ENG GER
Hinz and Kunz (What do you think, Kunz, how big is the sun? ) ENG GER
Holy guardian angel, my sweet companion ENG SPA
Hot and Blue (I am earth that's not yet plowed) - G. Bachlund
Hot House (The hot house once blossomed with color and hue ) - G. Bachlund
How it once was ENG GER
Hugo the Dark Knight (With his two rugged squires) ENG GER
I am earth that's not yet plowed
G. Bachlund: Hot and Blue

I cannot divide life ENG GER
I come down to earth from heavens above
G. Bachlund: Heavenly Days

I do not like the way I feel
G. Bachlund: A Litany of Symptoms

I dream so quietly of you (Always in morning come the pain-filled colors ) ENG GER
"I go to drown myself," she said lightly ENG GER
I have nothing in me of which to rejoice ENG GER
I have only written (I cannot divide life) ENG GER
I love those first anxious, tender caresses ENG GER
I sit on my porch through the whole damn day
G. Bachlund: No Body Blues

I will sing to you and will not dissemble ENG GER
If I were two birds ENG GER
In a sacred pond in Singapore ENG GER
In my closet hangs still your coat on a hanger ENG GER
In snow-capped Hindu-Cow ENG GER
In the chair, you, and I at your feet ENG GER
In the curves which the river has bent ENG GER
In the darkest land in Africa ENG GER
In the infinite the same events ENG GER
In the night sky ENG GER
Introduction (Much occurs at various times) ENG GER
It was a cross (It was a cross) - G. Bachlund
It was a cross
G. Bachlund: It was a cross

Joy (Joy shall never be silent) ENG GER
Joy shall never be silent ENG GER
Jumbled (Love is up and then it's down ) - G. Bachlund
Last night as I slept (Last night as I slept) ENG SPA
Last night as I slept ENG SPA
Last song (My blossoms are all faded!) ENG GER
Life (Life's ups and downs don't ever disengage) - G. Bachlund
Life's ups and downs don't ever disengage
G. Bachlund: Life

Little Questions (Who will raise my children? ) - G. Bachlund
Lore Lay (Near Bacharach on the Rhine ) ENG GER FRE
Love (Love; it's a difficult word at the very best) - G. Bachlund
Love is up and then it's down
G. Bachlund: Jumbled

Love; it's a difficult word at the very best
G. Bachlund: Love

Mister Miller had a flea ENG GER
Mother (A white star sings a death song) ENG GER
Much occurs at various times ENG GER
My blossoms are all faded! ENG GER
My child, things here are quite the same ENG
My father of glorious memory ENG GER
My first love was a hero
G. Bachlund: Cigarette Smoke

My mother has geese ENG GER
My smallest failing (My smallest failing is jealousy) ENG GER
My smallest failing is jealousy ENG GER
Name the names
G. Bachlund: The Quilt

Near Bacharach on the Rhine ENG GER FRE
No! (Blows the wind?) ENG GER
No Body Blues (I sit on my porch through the whole damn day) - G. Bachlund
No misery (Cowardly thoughts) ENG GER
Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the Lord my soul to keep. While I dream, recall
G. Bachlund: Yesterday

Now slumbers my soul (The storm felled trees ) ENG GER
O little child unwanted (O little child unwanted and aborted by its mom ) - G. Bachlund
O little child unwanted and aborted by its mom
G. Bachlund: O little child unwanted

Old Age (Old Age is a courteous gentleman ) ENG GER
Old Age is a courteous gentleman ENG GER
Old song (There was once a baker) ENG GER
On the mountain stands a tree branch-less ENG GER
On top of Mount Sinai (On top of Mount Sinai) ENG GER
On top of Mount Sinai ENG GER
Once again (Once again fell into my lap) ENG GER
Once again fell into my lap ENG GER
Pâtés there, pâtés here ENG GER
Politics (Politics, the servant says) - G. Bachlund
Politics is when the pig
G. Bachlund: Politics is where the pig

Politics is where the pig (Politics is when the pig ) - G. Bachlund
Politics, the servant says
G. Bachlund: Politics

Quodlibet (When sickness does not torment me ) ENG GER
Rain in the twilight (The changing wind on the byways) ENG GER
Recipe (You mix seven pounds of Palmin) ENG
Reconciliation (A great star shall fall in my bosom...) ENG GER
Rest? How? Question "Requiem?"
G. Bachlund: Room A-460

Riddle (A little fellow stands in the woods ) ENG GER
Romance Novel (Dark days are come ) - G. Bachlund
Room A-460 (Rest? How? Question "Requiem?") - G. Bachlund
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue (Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue) - G. Bachlund
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue
G. Bachlund: Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue

Scrap iron, brass, lead ENG GER
Seated on the throne ENG GER
Serfdom was only a part of it ENG GER
She was a beautiful, delicate blossom (She was a beautiful, delicate blossom) ENG GER
She was a beautiful, delicate blossom ENG GER
She's called the grouchy Missus Xanthippe ENG GER
Si mundus vult decipi (Si mundus vult decipi ) - G. Bachlund
Si mundus vult decipi
G. Bachlund: Si mundus vult decipi

Silent child, wholly defiled (Silent child, wholly defiled ) - G. Bachlund
Silent child, wholly defiled
G. Bachlund: Silent child, wholly defiled

So come, whatever must come! ENG GER
so, I ask (a little man) ENG GER
So what remains then of life ENG GER
So your head and heart are buzzing? ENG GER
Song of the Unborn (Father, there is no threat to you ) ENG GER
Sonnet (In my closet hangs still your coat on a hanger) ENG GER
Spring (Spring is again returned. The Earth) ENG GER
Spring is again returned. The Earth ENG GER
Such a tepid, white day (Such a tepid, white day) ENG GER
Such a tepid, white day ENG GER
Talent (Had God wanted me otherwise) ENG GER
Tell me something of strange lands, that you have seen ENG GER
The aesthetic Weasel (A weasel sat) ENG GER
The best (So your head and heart are buzzing?) ENG GER
The big and little dogs (A little dog, that hadn't recently) ENG GER
The button (There was a button on Fritz' cap) ENG GER
The changing wind on the byways ENG GER
The contest (The cuckoo and the donkey) ENG GER
The crocodile (In a sacred pond in Singapore) ENG GER
The cuckoo and the donkey ENG GER
The donkey (I have nothing in me of which to rejoice) ENG GER
The donkey spoke to Aesop ENG GER
The Double Standard Song (Do as I say, not as I do ) - G. Bachlund
The egg (A cuckoo's egg dropped from a tree ) ENG GER
The end of the world (There is weeping in the world) ENG GER
The feather (A little feather flew over the land) ENG GER
The flea (Mister Miller had a flea) ENG GER
The fly and the bug (The fly had said to the bug) ENG GER
The fly had said to the bug ENG GER
The Fox and the Stork (Tell me something of strange lands, that you have seen ) ENG GER
The gemstone (Good king Magarone placed a fine gem) ENG GER
The hot house once blossomed with color and hue
G. Bachlund: Hot House

The last path ("I go to drown myself," she said lightly) ENG GER
The leaves are falling, falling as from afar ENG GER
The little fairies of Cologne (How it once was) ENG GER
The little lad (There was a nasty, little lad) ENG GER
The little lass (There was a poor but lovely little lass) ENG GER
The little rabbit (The little rabbit sat in the cabbage patch) ENG GER
The little rabbit sat in the cabbage patch ENG GER
The moral (In the darkest land in Africa) ENG GER
The old Marabou (In snow-capped Hindu-Cow) ENG GER
The potato song (Pâtés there, pâtés here) ENG GER
The Quilt (Name the names ) - G. Bachlund
The Rain Is Failing (The rain is falling all around ) - G. Bachlund ENG
The rain is falling all around ENG
G. Bachlund: The Rain Is Failing

The seed (A bit of seed was lying around) ENG GER
The sewing pin (A tailor's hand found a sewing pin) ENG GER
The sigh (A sigh was skating on the evening ice) ENG GER
The snuff box (There was a snuff box) ENG GER
The soap bubble (A soap bubble hovered as it flew) ENG GER
The Social Democrat's Song (We'll love to tell you what to do, after the coup! ) - G. Bachlund
The spark (A little spark would soon surprise) ENG GER
The stone (A little stone rolled down snappily) ENG GER
The storm felled trees ENG GER
The stormy night had wedded us ENG GER
The time is gone (The time is gone; thoughtlessly you lost yourself) ENG GER
The time is gone; thoughtlessly you lost yourself ENG GER
The Warrior Wolf (My father of glorious memory) ENG GER
The water drop (A water drop fell from the skies) ENG GER
The Water Snake (Zeus had not ever given frogs another king) ENG GER
The way to manage debt
G. Bachlund: A Government Song

There is weeping in the world ENG GER
There was a briquette, a great genius ENG GER
There was a button on Fritz' cap ENG GER
There was a nasty, little lad ENG GER
There was a poor but lovely little lass ENG GER
There was a snuff box ENG GER
There was a yellow lemon ENG GER
There was once a baker ENG GER
Under the table (A little piece of Brie cheese) ENG GER
Verona (In the curves which the river has bent) ENG GER
Wanted: a puppy ENG GER
Water and wine (Friend, say what would you drink?) ENG GER
Water mouse and toad (A water mouse and toad) ENG GER
We'll love to tell you what to do, after the coup!
G. Bachlund: The Social Democrat's Song

What About It? (Woman wants one steady beau ) - G. Bachlund
What am I, as I look back?
G. Bachlund: Who Am I?

What do you think, Kunz, how big is the sun? ENG GER
What is an original? (What is an original?) ENG GER
What is an original? ENG GER
What remains then (So what remains then of life) ENG GER
When sickness does not torment me ENG GER
Who Am I? (What am I, as I look back? ) - G. Bachlund
Who will raise my children?
G. Bachlund: Little Questions

Who's responsible for the plague?
G. Bachlund: A Litany of Finger Pointing

With his two rugged squires ENG GER
Woman wants one steady beau
G. Bachlund: What About It?

Xanthippe (She's called the grouchy Missus Xanthippe) ENG GER
Yes, just scold (Yes, just scold and curse on) ENG GER
Yes, just scold and curse on ENG GER
Yesterday (Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the Lord my soul to keep. While I dream, recall ) - G. Bachlund
You lovely star (You lovely star) ENG GER
You lovely star ENG GER
You mix seven pounds of Palmin ENG
You who weep, come to God because he too weeps ENG FRE
Zest for life (In the infinite the same events) ENG GER
Zeus had not ever given frogs another king ENG GER

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