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Author: Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Death and Taxes and Other Poems
Enough Rope
Sunset Gun

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics

A very short song (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Biographies. 1. (from Enough Rope) [x] *
P. Fetler: Now this is the story

Bohemia - M. Horder [x] *
Bric à brac (from Sunset Gun) - M. Horder [x] *
Bric-Brac (from Sunset Gun) [x] *
S. Barab: Bric-Brac
M. Horder: Bric à brac

Chant for dark hours (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Coda (from Sunset Gun) - S. Barab [x] *
Comment (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Convalescent - M. Horder [x] *
Four be the things (from Enough Rope) - C. Wirth [x] *
Frustration (If I had a shiny gun ) *
R. Gordon: Resumé/Wail/Frustration

How am I to know - J. King [x] *
I always saw, I always said (from Sunset Gun) *
R. Gordon: The red dress

I do not like my state of mind (from Enough Rope) *
S. Barab: Symptom Recital

If I had a shiny gun *
R. Gordon: Resumé/Wail/Frustration

Indian Summer (from Enough Rope) [x] *
S. Barab: Indian Summer

Inventory (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Lady, lady should you meet (from Enough Rope) *
J. Musto, S. Barab: Social note

Love has gone a-rocketing. *
M. Horder: Wail
R. Gordon: Resumé/Wail/Frustration

Love song (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Lullaby (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Men (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
My own dear love - M. Horder [x] *
Now at liberty (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Now this is the story (from Enough Rope) - P. Fetler [x] *
One perfect rose (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Razors pain you (from Enough Rope) *
J. Musto, G. Parchman: Résumé
R. Gordon: Resumé/Wail/Frustration

Renunciation (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Résumé (Razors pain you ) (from Enough Rope) - J. Musto, G. Parchman *
Resumé/Wail/Frustration (Razors pain you ) (from Enough Rope) - R. Gordon *
Resumé/Wail/Frustration (Love has gone a-rocketing. ) - R. Gordon *
Resumé/Wail/Frustration (If I had a shiny gun ) - R. Gordon *
Rondeau redoublé (from Enough Rope) [x] *
H. Clarke: Rondeau redoublé

Rondeau redoublé (from Enough Rope) - H. Clarke [x] *
Social note (Lady, lady should you meet ) (from Enough Rope) - J. Musto, S. Barab *
Somebody's song (from Enough Rope) [x] *
S. Barab: Somebody's song

Song in a Minor Key (There's a place I know where the birds swing low) (from Enough Rope) - G. Bachlund
Song of one of the girls (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Song of perfect propriety (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Sweet lady sleep befriend me [x] *
R. Robbins: Threat to a fickle lady

Symptom Recital (I do not like my state of mind ) (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab *
The choice (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
The false friends (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
The red dress (I always saw, I always said ) (from Sunset Gun) - R. Gordon *
The sea (Who lay against the sea, and fled) - J. Musto *
The thin edge (With you, my heart is quiet here) - J. Heggie *
The trusting heart (from Sunset Gun) - S. Barab [x] *
The waltz - L. Hoiby [x] *
There's a place I know where the birds swing low (from Enough Rope)
G. Bachlund: Song in a Minor Key

They part (from Enough Rope) - S. Barab [x] *
Threat to a fickle lady (Sweet lady sleep befriend me) - R. Robbins [x] *
Ultimatum (from Death and Taxes and Other Poems) - S. Barab [x] *
Unfortunate coincidence - M. Horder [x] *
Wail (Love has gone a-rocketing. ) - M. Horder *
Who lay against the sea, and fled *
J. Musto: The sea

Wisdom (from Sunset Gun) - S. Barab [x] *
Wisecracks - T. Riedstra [x] *
With you, my heart is quiet here *
J. Heggie: The thin edge

Words of comfort (from Enough Rope) - S. Calvin [x] *
Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror (from Enough Rope) [x] *
S. Calvin: Words of comfort

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