Oh, when I was in love with you

Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was [clean]1 and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
[How]2 well did I behave.

[And]3 now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 18, published 1896

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

by Robert F. Baksa (1938-) , "Oh, when I was in love with you", from Housman Songs, no. 9.
by Vernon Duke (1903-1969) [pseudonym] , "Oh, when I was in love", published 1955 [medium voice and piano], from Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?
by Chester Duncan (1913-) , "Oh, when I was in love with you", 1938 [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. ?
by Daron Aric Hagen (1961-) , "O, when I was in love with you", 1983-99, first performed 1999 [voice and piano], from Heart of the Stranger, no. 7.
by George Heussenstamm (1926-) , "Oh, when I was in love with you", published 1970. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Juli Nunlist , "Oh, when I was in love with you", published 1972 [medium voice and piano], in the collection Contemporary Art Song Album, volume II
by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893-1976) , "Oh, when I was in love with you", 1925-7 (1960) [tenor and piano], from Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?
by Nick Peros , "Oh, when I was in love with you"
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Oh, when I was in love with you", 1908-9, published 1911, rev. 1946 [tenor, piano, and string quartet ad libitum], from On Wenlock Edge, no. 4.
by Mervin Whitcomb , "Oh, when I was in love", published 1953 [SATB chorus and piano], from Two Housman Poems, no. ?

GER German (Walter A. Aue)

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