Girl's song (Gibson, set by H. Howells) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


I saw three black pigs riding
In a blue and yellow cart;
Three black pigs riding to the fair
Behind the old grey dappled mare,
But it wasn't black pigs riding
In a gay and gaudy cart
That sent me into hiding
With a flutter in my heart.

I heard the cart returning,
The jolting jingling cart;
Returning empty from from the fair
Behind the old jogtrotting mare
But it wasn't the returning 
Of a clatt'ring empty cart,
That sent the hot blood burning
And throbbing thro' my heart.

Input by Virginia Knight

Authorship

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962)

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

Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)

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