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Growing in the vale

Language: English

Growing in the vale
  By the uplands hilly,
Growing straight and frail,
  Lady Daffadowndilly.

In a golden crown,
And a scant green gown
  While the spring blows chilly,
Lady Daffadown,
  Sweet Daffadowndilly.


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 Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Lady Daffadown", published 1929 [voices, piano], from The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grades
    * by Cecil Sharman , "Daffydowndilly", published 1936 [unison voices, piano], from Four Rossetti Poems
    * by Alfred J. Silver , "Growing in the vale", published 1916 [voice and piano], from Kookoorookoo and other songs
    * by Newton Swift , "Lady Daffydowndilly", published 1914 [voice, piano], from First Year Music
    * by Felix Harold White (1884-1945) , "Lady Daffadowndilly", published 1927. [unison voices, piano]

Date added to the website: 2006-01-19.

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