The swing

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside -

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown -
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The swing", 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) , "Swing song", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by John Chorbajian (1936-) , "The swing", 1966. [children's chorus, flute, and piano]
by Thomas Crawford , "The swing", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 8.
by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875-1921) , "The swing", published 1902 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Edward Falk , "The swing", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "The swing", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 5.
by Joseph Groocock , "How do you like to go up in a swing", published 1957 [SSA chorus and piano], from A Child's Garden, no. ?
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858-1940?) , "The swing", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937) , "The swing", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "The swing", from Five Little Songs, no. 1.
by Burton E. Hardin , "The swing", op. 23 no. 1 (<<1979), copyright © 1983 [tenor or soprano, horn, and piano or strings], from Flights of Fancy, no. 1.
by Marjorie Helyer , "The swing", published 1957. [unison voices and piano]
by Percy Judd , "The swing", published 1925. [unison voices and piano]
by (Henry Louis) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) , "The swing", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "The swing", published 1893 [soprano and piano], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 8.
by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) , "The swing", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Five Children's Songs, no. ?
by Francis Moore (1886-1946) , "Swing song", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Oskar Morawetz (1917-) , "The swing", 1985, from Souvenirs from Childhood, no. 2.
by David Moule-Evans (1905-) , "The swing", published <<1951. [unison voices and piano]
by Marvin Radnor , "The swing", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958) , "The swing", published 1963. [SS chorus and piano]
by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "The swing", published 1933. [unaccompanied voice]
by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879-1943) , "The swing", published 1915. [unison voices and piano]
by Eleanor Smith , "The swing", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Song Pictures, no. ?
by Muriel Thomas , "The swing", published 1957 [medium unison voices and piano], from Four songs for children, no. ?, also set in Welsh (translation by Wil Ifan)
by John Brown Russell Whitfield , "The swing", published 1955. [unison voices and piano]
by Patrick Williams , "The swing", published 1961. [unison voices and piano]
by William Luton Wood , "The swing", published 1915-7. [voice and piano]
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "The swing", published 1962 [SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

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