Daddy Long-legs (Louis Casper Jacoby)

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• (Posted 2023-11-02)  CPDL #76877:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 591 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Daddy Long-legs
Composer: Louis Casper Jacoby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1882 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Old Daddy Longlegs would not say his prayers,
Take him by the left leg,
Take him by the right leg,
Take him up by both legs,
And throw him down stairs.