First Lines of Texts in All Languages, BM up to BZ

Boats sail on the rivers
          - H. Sarson: Boats and Bridges
          - S. Homer: Boats sail on the rivers
          - M. Swinger: Boats sail on the rivers
          - C. Wood: Boats sail on the rivers
Bobèche, adieu! bonsoir, Paillasse! arrière, Gille
          - W. Bon: Le clown
Bog Kupidon dremal v tishi lesnoj
          - D. Kabalevsky: Bog Kupidon dremal v tishi lesnoj
Bogi, Bogi moi! Kak grustna vechernjaja zemlja!
          - D. Smirnov: Vechnyj prijut
          - D. Smirnov: Vechnyj prijut
Bogorodice Devo, radujsja
          - S. Rachmaninov: Bogorodice Devo, radujsja
Boicie się po ciemku, wiem
          - K. Szymanowski: Dla malych dziewczynek
Bois chers aux ramiers, pleurez, doux feuillages
          - E. Chausson: Nanny
          - Paladilhe: Nanny
Bois épais, redouble ton ombre
          - J. Lully: Bois épais
Bois frissonnants, ciel étoilé
          - H. Büsser: L'abandonée
          - E. Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle
Bois Janin à moi tour à tour
          - F. Regnard: Bois Janin à moi
Bolnăvit de doruri multe
          - N. Bretan: Singur
Bol'shi seja ljubve nikto zhe immat', da kto dushu
          - S. Rachmaninov: Iz `Evangelija ot Ioanna
Bon chevalier masqué qui chevauche en silence
          - E. Chausson: Le Chevalier Malheur
Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine
          - G. Dufay: Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine
Bon jour, et puis, quelles nouvelles
          - G. Enescu: Aux damoyselles paresseuses d'escrire a leurs amys
Bon Saint Michel qui me donnez loisir
          - M. Ravel: Chanson épique
Bona nox! bista rechta Ox
          - W. Mozart: Bona nox! bista rechta Ox
Bone pastor Guillerme
          - G. Machaut: Bone pastor Guillerme
Bonjour mon coeur
          - R. de Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur
          - P. Viardot: Bonjour mon coeur
Bonjour Suzon, ma fleur des bois
          - L. Delibes: Bonjour Suzon
          - Pessard: Bonjour Suzon
Bonne journée j'ai revu qui je n'oublie pas
          - F. Poulenc: Bonne journée
Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing
          - L. Beethoven: Bonnie wee thing
Booth led boldly with his big bass drum
          - S. Homer: General Booth enters into Heaven
          - C. Ives: General William Booth enters into Heaven
          - P. James: General William Booth enters into heaven
          - P. James: General William Booth enters into heaven
Born of the midnight cold
          - H. Gilbert: Croon of the dew
Bort gå de, stumma skrida de
          - H. Alfvén: Gustaf Frödings jordfärd
Bother Bulleys, let us sing
          - A. Serrell: The Bullfinches
Bouche grave des lions
          - G. Auric: Réveil
Bowered on sloping hillsides rise
          - S. Elgar: A Christmas greeting
Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day?
          - I. Gertz: Buffalo Bill
Bože dálný, nesmrtelný
          - L. Janáček: Bože dálný, nesmrtelný
Bože muoj, otče muoj
          - L. Janáček: Osamělý
Bože! Bože! píseň novou
          - A. Dvořák: Bože! Bože! píseň novou
Brächte dich meinem Arm der nächste Frühling
          - F. Mendelssohn-Hensel: Die Ersehnte
Brachycome iberidifolia; étoile bleue
          - D. Milhaud: Le brachycome
Brahma, Dieu des croyants
          - H. Bemberg: Chant Hindou
Branch by branch this tree has died
          - H. Adams: Branch by Branch
Brat af slaget rammet
          - J. Hartmann: Brat af slaget rammet
Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day
          - T. Campion: Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day
Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
          - J. Brahms: Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
Braust des Unglücks Sturm empor
          - F. Schubert: Trost im Liede
Braust es, weht es, und der Bäume Gipfel tief sich neigen
          - P. Fassbaender: Liebesklage
Brausten alle Berge
          - J. Brahms: Verlorene Jugend
Brazii își vindecă scorburile
          - M. Eisikovits: Transfuzie secretă
Bread and milk for breakfast
          - G. Conant: In winter
Break, break, break
          - D. Arditti: Break, break, break
          - E. Manning: Break, break, break
          - S. Homer: Break, break, break
          - J. Fernström: Break, break, break
Break forth in plaintive riot
          - H. Schalit: Break forth in plaintive riot
Breake now my heart and dye, Oh no, she may relent
          - T. Campion: Breake now my heart and dye
breath of autumns being
          - M. Ostrzyga: Wind resonances
Breathe from the gentle south
          - C. Ives: The waiting soul
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently
          - A. Brings: To an unborn pauper child
Brecht die schwangern Anmutsnelken
          - A. Knab: Aria zu einer Nachtmusik vor der Brautkammer
Breit' über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar
          - R. Strauss: Breit' über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar
Breite, Nachtigall, die Flügel
          - F. Niggli: An die Nachtigall
Brennend rot und schwarz gefleckt
          - G. Einem: Mohnlied
Brennessel steht am Wegesrand
          - J. Brahms: Brennessel steht am Wegesrand
Brich aus in lauten Klagen
          - A. Heller: Brich aus in lauten Klagen
          - J. Neger: Rabbi von Bacharach
Brich nur, brich, du armes Herz!
          - J. Schulz: Lied eines Unglücklichen
Bricht das matte Herz noch immer
          - L. Reichardt: Sehnsucht nach dem Vaterlande
          - A. Crelle: Zulima
          - J. Kienlen: Lied aus Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Briefchen schrieb und warf in den Wind ich
          - A. Zemlinsky: Briefchen schrieb ich
          - J. Weismann: Briefchen schrieb und warf in den Wind ich
Bright be the place of thy soul
          - R. Addison: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - G. Barker: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - C. Birch: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - F. Bosen: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - F. Clarke: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - J. Clarke-Whitfeld: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - J. Ellerton: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - W. Johnson: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - T. Matthay: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - F. Mendelssohn-Hensel: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - I. Nathan: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - S. Oakley: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - J. Pointer: Bright be the place of thy soul!
          - J. Taylor: Bright be the place of thy soul!
Bright bird, light bird
          - T. Riego: Slave song
Bright cap and streamers
          - B. Moore: Bright cap and streamers
          - L. Betts: Bright cap and streamers
          - J. Ferris: Bright cap and streamers
          - J. Jarrett: Bright cap and streamers
          - D. Klotzman: Bright cap and streamers
          - E. Moeran: Bright cap
          - W. Spencer: Bright cap and streamers
          - G. Treacher: Bright cap and streamers
          - G. Victory: Bright cap and streamers
Bright clouds of May
          - I. Gurney: Bright Clouds
Bright is the ring of words
          - R. Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words
          - P. Warlock: Bright is the ring of words
          - P. Warlock: Bright is the ring of words
Bright portals of the sky
          - R. Vaughan Williams: Hymn
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
          - R. Still: Sonnet
Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven
          - G. Antheil: To the moon
Brille encore
          - C. Chaminade: Chanson espagnole
Bring away this Sacred Tree
          - T. Campion: Song: Bring away this Sacred Tree
Bring her again, O western wind
          - A. Beach: Western wind
          - C. Forsyth: Bring her again, o western wind
          - F. Hart: Western wind
          - F. Hastings: Bring her again to me
          - J. Hathaway: Bring her again
          - N. Johnson: Wind of the western sea
          - F. Korbay: Bring her again
          - J. Mallinson: Over the western sea
          - H. Parker: Bring her again
          - S. Ronald: Bring her again, o western wind
          - M. Wald: The western sea
          - W. Watts: Bring her again to me
Bring' ich der Schönheit, da ich sie erblickt'
          - E. Wolff: Bring' ich der Schönheit die Seele nah
Bring me the sunset in a cup
          - N. Peros: Bring me the sunset in a cup
Bring mir keine Geschenke. Bring mir nur dich
          - G. Einem: Das Geschenk
Bring' mir von allen Rosensträuchern
          - F. Petyrek: In der Rosenzeit
Bring the comb and play upon it
          - M. Williamson: Marching song
Bring us in no beef, sir, for that is full of bones
          - P. Warlock: Peter Warlock's Fancy
Bring us in no brown bread for that is made of bran
          - P. Warlock: Good ale
Bringe mir den Stein der Weisen
          - H. Fleischer: Bringe mir den Stein der Weisen
          - H. Fleischer: Bringe mir den Stein der Weisen
Bringet des treu'sten Herzens Grüße
          - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Reiselied
Brodil ja pod ten'ju derev'ev
          - E. Denisov: Brodil ja pod ten'ju derev'ev
Brødre, meget langt herfra
          - C. Weyse: Brødre, meget langt herfra
Brørar kvarandre
          - D. Johansen: Brørar kvarandre
Brót so stillan bylgja blá
          - P. Alberg: Brót so stillan bylgja blá
brotherS Of husbaNd egypt aNd yoursElf and jacob
          - J. Cage: brotherS Of husbaNd egypt aNd yoursElf and jacob
Broutez le thym, broutez mes chèvres
          - C. Gounod: Chanson de pâtre
Brown and furry
          - J. Berger: The caterpillar
          - S. Parry: Brown and furry
          - N. Simons: The caterpillar
Brown is my Love, but graceful
          - I. Gurney: Brown is my Love
          - R. Quilter: Brown is my Love
Brown-thrush singing all day long
          - R. Baksa: April Song
          - S. Barab: Love me
          - H. Milligan: Love me
          - W. Watts: Love me
          - K. Clarke: Love me, kiss me
Brozhu li ja vdol' ulic shumnykh
          - D. Shostakovich: Stancy
Brüder, Brüder, wir ziehen in den Krieg
          - Silcher: Beim Ausmarsch
Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch?
          - Taubert: Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch?
Bruder Leichtsinn, so werd ich genannt
          - F. Lehár: Schön ist die Welt
Brüder, schrecklich brennt die Thräne
          - F. Schubert: Lied
Bruder, sieh den armen Mann
          - J. Hiller: Der arme Mann
Brüder! unser Erdenwallen
          - F. Schubert: Trinklied
Bruder, wenn die Gläser winken
          - J. Hiller: Das aufgehobene Gebot
          - C. Graun: Das aufgehobene Gebot
          - J. Graefe: Das aufgehobene Gebot
Bruit profond de la mer, tu ceins tout le rivage du globe sombre
          - C. Koechlin: Sur la grève
Brune enfant de l'Osmanli
          - J. Hignard: Chanson turque
Brusande rusar en våg opp och stannar
          - J. Sibelius: Brusande rusar en våg
Büable, hör mi ân: Heut af mein Nâmenstag
          - E. Humperdinck: Jager und Senn'rin
Bub und Mädel, groß und klein
          - E. Humperdinck: Abzählen
Bubble, bubble
          - G. Peterkin: Song of the Water Maiden
Büble, wir - büble, wir wollen außre gehe!
          - G. Mahler: Verlorne müh'!
Bûcheron abats mon ombre
          - F. Poulenc: Chanson de l'oranger sec
Büchlein, Büchlein an der Wand
          - G. Bachlund: Professoren-Liedchen
Buffalo Bill 's defunct
          - W. Clark: Buffalo Bill's Defunct
          - J. Yannatos: Buffalo Bill's
          - G. Bachlund: Buffalo Bill's
Buildings above the leafless trees
          - J. Duke: Central Park at Dusk
          - G. Bachlund: Central Park at Dusk
Bujdokolva járok Bércet
          - E. Kálmán: Bujdokolva járok
Buko von Halberstadt
          - E. Albert: Wiegenlied
          - T. Streicher: Wiegenlied
Bulbuls Nachtlied durch die Schauer
          - W. Petersen: Bulbul (Die Nachtigall)
Bunches of grapes, says Timothy
          - I. Armitage: Bunches of grapes
          - E. Bullock: Bunches of grapes
          - C. Forsyth: Says Jane
          - C. Gibbs: Bunches of grapes
          - H. Howells: Bunches of grapes
          - F. Keel: Bunches of grapes
          - P. Wilkinson: Bunches of grapes
          - D. Pitcher: Bunches of grapes
Bunt sind schon die Wälder
          - F. Schubert: Herbstlied
Burd Ellen sits in her bower windowe
          - P. Warlock: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
Burgen mit hohen
          - R. Wagner: Lied der Soldaten
          - J. Kienlen: Soldatenlied
Burja mgloju nebo krojet
          - A. Dargomyzhsky: Zimnij vecher
          - N. Medtner: Zimnij vecher
          - E. Napravnik: Zimnij vecher
          - V. Rebikov: Zimnij vecher
          - M. Slonov: Zimnij vecher
          - M. Yakovlev: Zimnij vecher
          - P. Viardot: Burja
Burst forth, my tears, assist my forward grief
          - J. Dowland: Burst forth, my tears
Bushuj volnujsja, glubokoje more
          - A. Dargomyzhsky: Bushuj volnujsja, glubokoje more
Busy, curious, thirsty fly
          - R. Bennett: The fly
          - P. Hindemith: On a fly drinking out of his cup
But if the Soul can fling the Dust aside
          - L. Lehmann: Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her own heart
          - R. Vaughan Williams: Narration (5)
But only three in all God's universe
          - G. Branscombe: But only three in all God's universe
          - E. Freer: But only three in all God's universe
But that night when on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd
          - B. Britten: But that night when on my bed I lay
But we have only begun
          - J. Wallach: Beginners
But wherefore do not you a mightier way
          - R. Simpson: Sonnet XVI
Búðarí loftið hún Gunna upp gekk
          - E. Thoroddsen: Búðarvísa
Butterflies are white and blue
          - L. Steele: Mariposa
Butterfly is in love with the rose
          - G. Boyle: The butterfly is in love with the rose
          - G. Cox: Butterfly is in love with the rose
buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound
          - G. Bachlund: buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound
          - A. Blank: buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound
Buza, buza, buza, de szép tábla buza
          - B. Bartók: Buza, buza, buza, de szép tábla buza
By a departing light
          - L. Larsen: By a departing light
By a fountain where I lay
          - J. Dowland: By a fountain where I lay
By a route obscure and lonely
          - A. Downes: Dreamland
          - H. Mulder: Dreamland
          - M. Van Höveln-Carpé: Dreamland
By beauteous softness mix'd with majesty
          - H. Purcell: By beauteous softness
By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim
          - T. Arne: By dimpled brook
By miracles exceeding power of man
          - J. Mitchell: By miracles exceeding (crucifixion)
By morning's brightest beams
          - C. Ives: Allegro
By myself walking
          - C. Gibbs: Hypochondriacus
By the blue wooden sea
          - W. Walton: Switchback
By the first of August
          - J. Mitchell: I Remember
By the gaily circling glass
          - T. Arne: By the gaily circling glass
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
          - P. Grainger: The fall of the stone
By the lore of ages far
          - J. Hatton: The Enchantress
By the old Moulmein Pagoda lookin' eastward to the sea
          - H. Richardson: Mandalay
          - O. Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me
          - N. Rorem: The Hanging Man
By the rude bridge that arched the flood
          - E. Birge: Concord Hymn
          - J. Jarrett: Concord Hymn
          - R. Kent: Concord Hymn
          - M. Mailman: Concord Hymn
          - J. Rico: Concord Hymn
          - R. Ringwald: Concord Hymn
          - R. Ward: Concord Hymn
          - K. Wood: Concord Hymn
By the sad waters of separation
          - F. Delius: By the sad waters of separation
By the side of the Shannon was laid a young Lover
          - L. Beethoven: By the side of the Shannon
By Thee the fire doth shine
          - G. Holst: Faith
By William late offended
          - L. Beethoven: Jeanie's Distress
By you bonny banks and you bonny braes
          - R. Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond
Byl den' vesennij. Vse, rascvetaja, likovalo
          - O. Strok: Chjornyje glaza
Byl malen'kij mal'chik
          - A. Gretchaninov: Mal'chik s pal'chik
Byl ongi król sedziwy
          - M. Hertz: Stary król
Byl staryj korol'... (`Etu pesnju ja, drugi, slykhal v starinu)
          - V. Kalinnikov: Byl staryj korol'
Byl u Khrista-mladenca sad, i mnogo roz vzrastil on v njom
          - P. Tchaikovsky: Legenda
Byla nedolgoj zhizn' cvetka..
          - N. Myaskovsky: O cvetke
Byla vesna, byl jasnyj den'
          - M. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Osen'ju
Bylykh strastej, bylykh zhelanij
          - M. Balakirev: Zveno
Byt' groze! Ja vizhu `eto
          - S. Lyapunov: Byt' groze!
Byvalo, v glubokij polunochnyj chas
          - S. Rachmaninov: K detjam