Marching song

Bring the comb and play upon it!
Marching, here we come!
Willie cocks his highland bonnet,
Johnnie beats the drum.

Mary Jane commands the party,
Peter leads the rear;
Feet in time, alert and hearty,
Each a Grenadier!

All in the most martial manner
Marching double-quick;
While the napkin like a banner
Waves upon the stick!

Here's enough of fame and pillage,
Great commander Jane!
Now that we've been round the village,
Let's go home again.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Marching song", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Mark Andrews (1875-1939) , "Marching song", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by Thomas Crawford , "Marching song", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 5.
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Marching song", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Marching song", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Stevensonia, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Marching song", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858-1940?) , "Marching song", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by (Henry Louis) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) , "Marching song", published 1928-30 [voice and piano], from The Music Hour
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "Marching song", published 1902 [voice or vocal quartet and piano], from More daisies: new songs of childhood, no. 8.
by Sven Lekberg (1899-1984) , "Marching song", published 1958. [SATBB chorus a cappella]
by Peter Russell Naylor (1933-) , "Marching song", published 1964. [unison voices and piano]
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878-1937) , "Marching song", <<1937 [voice and piano], from Three Leaves from a Child's Garden, no. ?
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958) , "Marching song", published 1963. [unison voices and piano]
by Frank Spedding (1929-) , "Marching song", published 1959. [unison voices and piano]
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Marching song", op. 30 no. 7, published 1892 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 7.
by E. Roy Thompson , "Marching song", published <<1951. [unison voices and piano]
by John Brown Russell Whitfield , "Marching song", published <<1967. [unison voices and piano]
by Patrick Williams , "Marching song", published 1968. [unison voices and piano]
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "Marching song", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 2.
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "Marching song", published 1962 [SSA and piano or instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

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