Author: Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954)

Texts set to music [warning - not an exhaustive list]

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1, 2, 3 (Why doesn't one, two, three) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund
A big October morning
C. Ives: Walking

A Christmas carol (Little star of Bethlehem) - C. Ives
A leopard went around his cage
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: The cage

A son of a Gambolier (Come join my humble ditty) - C. Ives *
A Song - for anything (When the waves softly sigh) - C. Ives *
A sound of a distant horn (A sound of a distant horn) - C. Ives
A sound of a distant horn
C. Ives: A sound of a distant horn

All summer long, we boys dreamed 'bout big circus joys SPA
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: The Circus Band

An Old Flame (When dreams enfold me) - C. Ives *
An old man with a straw in his mouth
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: The see'r

Berceuse (O'er the mountain toward the west) - C. Ives
Come join my humble ditty *
C. Ives: A son of a Gambolier

Disclosure (Thoughts, which deeply rest at evening) - C. Ives
Down East (Songs! Visions of my homeland, come with strains of childhood) - C. Ives SPA
Down the river comes a noise
C. Ives: The new river

Evidence (There comes o'er the valley a shadow) - C. Ives
Fifteen years ago today *
C. Ives: He is there!

Go my songs! Draw Daphnis from the city *
C. Ives: Old Home Day

Grove, rove, night, delight
C. Ives: Love song

He grew in those seasons like corn in the night
C. Ives: Thoreau

He is there! (Fifteen years ago today) - C. Ives *
I dream of thee, my love, by night ENG
C. Ives: Through night and day

I think there must be a place in the soul
C. Ives: The things our fathers loved

Immortality (Who dares to say the spring is dead) - C. Ives
In the Alley (On my way to work one summer day) - C. Ives *
Is that Mister Riley, who keeps the hotel?" SPA ENG
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: The Side Show

It strikes me that some men and women got tired of a big job
C. Ives: Nov. 2 1920

Little star of Bethlehem
C. Ives: A Christmas carol

Love song (Grove, rove, night, delight) - C. Ives
Majority (The Masses! The Masses! The Masses have toiled) - C. Ives
Memories (We're sitting in the opera house) - C. Ives SPA
My native land (My native land now meets my eye) - C. Ives GER ENG FRE ENG RUS
My native land now meets my eye GER ENG FRE ENG RUS
C. Ives: My native land

Nature's way (When the distant evening bell calmly breathes its blessing) - C. Ives
Nov. 2 1920 (It strikes me that some men and women got tired of a big job) - C. Ives
Now help us, Lord, Thy yoke to wear
C. Ives: The collection

O'er the mountain toward the west
C. Ives: Berceuse

Old Home Day (Go my songs! Draw Daphnis from the city) - C. Ives *
On my way to work one summer day *
C. Ives: In the Alley

On sunny days in our backyard, two little flowers are seen SPA
C. Ives: Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)

On the counter (Tunes we heard in ninety two,") - C. Ives
One evening just at sunset we laid him in the grave
C. Ives: Slow march

1, 2, 3 (Why doesn't one, two, three) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund
Qu'il m'irait bien (Qu'il m'irait bien, ce ruban vert) - C. Ives
Qu'il m'irait bien, ce ruban vert
C. Ives: Qu'il m'irait bien

Resolution (Walking stronger under distant skies) - C. Ives
Round and round the old dance ground
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: Waltz

Scenes from my childhood are with me *
C. Ives: Tom sails away

Slow march (One evening just at sunset we laid him in the grave) - C. Ives
Songs! Visions of my homeland, come with strains of childhood SPA
C. Ives: Down East

The cage (A leopard went around his cage) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund
The Circus Band (All summer long, we boys dreamed 'bout big circus joys) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund SPA
The collection (Now help us, Lord, Thy yoke to wear) - C. Ives
The innate (Voices live in every finite being) - C. Ives
The Masses! The Masses! The Masses have toiled
C. Ives: Majority

The new river (Down the river comes a noise) - C. Ives
The see'r (An old man with a straw in his mouth) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund
The Side Show (Is that Mister Riley, who keeps the hotel?") - C. Ives, G. Bachlund SPA ENG
The things our fathers loved (I think there must be a place in the soul) - C. Ives
There comes o'er the valley a shadow
C. Ives: Evidence

There is a lane (There is a lane which winds towards the bay) - C. Ives
There is a lane which winds towards the bay
C. Ives: There is a lane

There's a time in many a life
C. Ives: They Are There

They Are There (There's a time in many a life) - C. Ives
Thoreau (He grew in those seasons like corn in the night) - C. Ives
Thoughts, which deeply rest at evening
C. Ives: Disclosure

Through night and day (I dream of thee, my love, by night) - C. Ives ENG
Tom sails away (Scenes from my childhood are with me) - C. Ives *
Tunes we heard in ninety two,"
C. Ives: On the counter

Two little flowers (and dedicated to them) (On sunny days in our backyard, two little flowers are seen) - C. Ives SPA
Voices live in every finite being
C. Ives: The innate

Walking (A big October morning) - C. Ives
Walking stronger under distant skies
C. Ives: Resolution

Waltz (Round and round the old dance ground) - C. Ives, G. Bachlund
We're sitting in the opera house SPA
C. Ives: Memories

When dreams enfold me *
C. Ives: An Old Flame

When the distant evening bell calmly breathes its blessing
C. Ives: Nature's way

When the waves softly sigh *
C. Ives: A Song - for anything

Who dares to say the spring is dead
C. Ives: Immortality

Why doesn't one, two, three
C. Ives, G. Bachlund: 1, 2, 3

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