A catastrophe (Nathan Brown Sprague)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78071:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 522 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A catastrophe
Composer: Nathan Brown Sprague
Lyricist: Charles Monroe Sheldon
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

There was a boy, there was a tack,
There was a teacher new.
The tack sat down upon its head,
The teacher sat down too!
Then up he rose, and seized that boy,
Who shook in every joint;
(boy) I only meant it for a joke,
(teacher) I failed to see the point!