Dearest, when I am dead
Language:
English
"Dearest, when I am dead,
Make one last song for me:
Sing what I would have said --
Righting life's wrong for me.
"Tell them how, early and late,
Glad ran the days with me,
Seeing how goodly and great,
Love, were your ways with me."
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 Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
, "Dearest, when I am dead", 1908. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953)
, "Dearest", op. 24, published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Frank Lambert [pseudonym]
, "Dearest, when I am dead", published 1904. [voice and piano]
by Charles Albert Lidgey (-1924)
, "Dearest, when I am dead", published 1909 [voice and piano], from A Song of Life
Date added to the website: 2007-06-14.
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