Sing Heigh‑Ho!

There sits a bird on every tree;
Sing heigh-ho!
There sits a bird on every tree,
And courts his love as I do thee;
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho!
Young maids must marry.

There grows a flower on every bough;
Sing heigh-ho!
There grows a flower on every bough,
Its petals kiss -- I'll show you how:
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho!
Young maids must marry.

From sea to stream the salmon roam;
Sing heigh-ho!
From sea to stream the salmon roam;
Each finds a mate, and leads her home;
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho!
Young maids must marry.

The sun's a bridegroom, earth a bride;
Sing heigh-ho!
They court from morn till eventide:
The earth shall pass, but love abide.
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho!
Young maids must marry.

by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) , "Sing Heigh-Ho!", 1847, from Andromeda and Other Poems, published 1858

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by William Henry Bell (1873-1946) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", 1903. [voice and piano]
by Cecil Burch , "There sits a bird", published 1866. [five-part chorus]
by Frederick Arthur Challinor , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1915. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Gordon S. Cole (1905-1970) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", 1953. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Robert Cross (1899-) , "Heigh-Ho!", 1957. [voice and piano]
by John Michael Diack (1869-1946) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1902. [chorus of equal SA voices and piano]
by Arthur Foote (1853-1937) , "There sits a bird on every tree", published 1909. [soprano or tenor and piano]
by Leland Forsblad , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1960. [SATB chorus and piano]
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "There sits a bird on every tree", 1899. [voice and piano]
by (Isador) George Henschel (1850-1934) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1880. [voice and piano]
by J. C. Herbert , "Sing Heigh-ho!"
by Walter Hewitt , "There sits a bird on every tree", published 1890. [voice and piano]
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", 1892. [voice and piano]
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", 1897. [voice and piano]
by Malcolm Leonard Lawson (1849-) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1893. [voice and piano]
by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872-1943) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1902. [duet for high voice, low voice, and piano]
by George Alexander MacFarren (1813-1887) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published c1866. [SATB chorus and piano ad libitum]
by George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1941. [SATB chorus a cappella (or with piano)]
by Horace Middleton , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Dorothy Parke , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1955. [medium voice and piano]
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1892. [four-part chorus a cappella]
by Joseph Williams (1847-1924) , "Sing Heigh-ho!", published 1930? [soprano and piano], from Nine songs, no. ?, under the pseudonym Florian Pascal

Date added to the website: 2009-01-29.

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