The Old Man with a Beard (Margaret Ruthven Lang)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77112:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 686 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Old Man with a Beard
Composer: Margaret Ruthven Lang
Lyricist: Edward Lear
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1909 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: Arranged for mixed voices by composer from: More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures, Op. 43

Original text and translations

English text

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen;
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.”