Singing
Language:
English
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.
The children sing in far Japan,
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Alys Eliza Bentley
, "Singing", published 1923, stanza 2. [unaccompanied voice]
by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)
, "Singing", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by Ethel Crowningshield
, "Singing", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Vladimir Drozdoff
, "Singing", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Stevensonia, no. ?
by Edward Falk
, "Singing", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Joseph Groocock
, "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", published 1957 [SSA chorus and piano], from A Child's Garden, no. ?
by Charles Beach Hawley (1858-1915)
, "Singing", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953)
, "Singing", op. 16 (Three songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses") no. 3. [voice and piano]
by Jan Masseus
, "Singing", op. 47a no. 3 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 3.
by Ethelbert Nevin (1862-1901)
, "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", <<1901 [voice and piano], from Three songs, no. 2.
by Marvin Radnor
, "Singing", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
, "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", published 1963. [unison voices and piano]
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