My ship and I

O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond.
And my ship it keeps a turning all around and all about,
But when I'm a little older I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.

For I mean to grow as little as the dolly on the helm
And the dolly I intend to come alive
And with him beside to help me it's a sailing I shall go,
It's a sailing on the water where the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a divie divie dive.

O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds
And you'll hear the water singing at the prow.
For beside the dolly sailor I'm to voyage and explore
To land upon the island where no dolly was before
And I'll fire the penny cannon on the bow!

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "My ship and I", 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) , "My ship and I", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by John Harvey Clements (1910-) , "My ship and I", published 1937. [unison voices and piano]
by Gladys M. Cohen (1907-1996) , "My ship and I", published 1956, under the name Guirne Javal
by Thomas Crawford , "My ship and I", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 10.
by Ethel Crowningshield , "My ship and I", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858-1940?) , "My ship and I", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "My ship and I", from Five Little Songs, no. 3.
by Frederick Keel (1871-1954) , "My ship and I", published 1953.
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "The captain", 1902 [voice or vocal quartet and piano], from More daisies: new songs of childhood, no. 10.
by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) , "My ship and I", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Five Children's Songs, no. ?
by Mary Bolton O'Donoghue , "My ship and I", published 1928-30 [unaccompanied voice], from The Music Hour, Book 2
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878-1937) , "My ship and I", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Three Leaves from a Child's Garden, no. ?
by Marvin Radnor , "My ship and I", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Thomas Griffen (Griffin?) Shepard (1848-1905) , "My ship and I", published 1901 [voice and piano], from A cycle of songs, no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "My ship and me", op. 30 no. 9, published 1892 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 9.

FRE French (Sylvain Labartette)

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