Mariner man (Sitwell, set by W. Walton) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 "What are you staring at, mariner man
 Wrinkled as sea-sand and old as the sea?"
 "Those trains will run over their tails,
 if they can,
 Snorting and sporting like porpoises. Flee
 The burly, the whirligig wheels of the train.
 As round as the world
 and as large again,
 Running half the way
 over to Babylon, down
 Through fields of clover
 to gay Troy town-
 A-puffing their smoke
 as grey as the curl
 On my forehead as wrinkled as
 sands of the sea!-
 But what can that matter
 to you, my girl?
 (And what can that matter to me?)"

Input by Dan Eggleston

Authorship

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

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William Walton (1902-1983)

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