There was an Old Man with a gong

There was an Old Man with a gong,
Who bumped at it all day long;
But they called out, 'O law!
You're a horrid old bore!'
So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

by Edward Lear (1812-1888) , no title, from A Book of Nonsense, published 1861

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

by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) , "There was an Old Man with a gong", 1970, rev. 1974 [two-part chorus of treble voices, strings, descand recorder, trumpet, percussion, and piano], from "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks), no. ?
by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) , "The Old Man with a gong", published 1905 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures, no. ?
by Elis Pehkonen , "There was an Old Man with a gong", published 1972 [speakers, piano, flute, gong, clarinet, trumpet, and drums], from Three Limericks, no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Gongdichtung", published 1960 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 5, published under the pseudonym Karel Drofnatski

Date added to the website: 2009-03-05.

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