There was an old man of the Isles

There was an old man of the Isles,
Whose face was pervaded with smiles;
He sang "High dum diddle",
And played on the fiddle,
That amiable man of the Isles.

by Edward Lear (1812-1888) , under the pseudonym "Derry Down Derry", no title, from A Book of Nonsense, published 1846

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 of the Isles", 1970, rev. 1974 [two-part chorus of treble voices, strings, descant recorder, trumpet, percussion, and piano], from "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks), no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "The Compleat Virtuoso", op. 366, published 1960 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 10, published under the pseudonym Karel Drofnatski

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