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This began as a word-setting exercise for a Robert Louis Stevenson Poem, "A Good Boy" from A Child's Garden of Verses. It's actually for voice and piano, but before submitting it here I did some quick orchestration passing the voice and piano parts between various instruments.
If you're a good lyric writer and you can come up with something more "grown up" so that I can upgrade it from a children's song/lullaby to an "art song", it would be inestimably wonderful. :-)
Update: Hear 12 year old soprano Demi sing this here.
If you're a good lyric writer and you can come up with something more "grown up" so that I can upgrade it from a children's song/lullaby to an "art song", it would be inestimably wonderful. :-)
Update: Hear 12 year old soprano Demi sing this here.
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Lyrics
I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
And I am very happy, for I know that I've been good.
My bed is waiting cool and fresh, with linen smooth and fair,
And I must be off to sleepsin-by, and not forget my prayer.
I know that, till to-morrow I shall see the sun arise,
No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes.
But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
And I am very happy, for I know that I've been good.
My bed is waiting cool and fresh, with linen smooth and fair,
And I must be off to sleepsin-by, and not forget my prayer.
I know that, till to-morrow I shall see the sun arise,
No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes.
But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.
A fine bed for a narrative or poem-song. Downloaded and placed into
my "for further consideration" folder. Thanks for the inspiration. Very
lyrical and luscious.