The History of a Lobster (Herbert Augustus Burney)
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- (Posted 2023-10-17) CPDL #76391:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-17). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 400 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Arranged by Adolph Fowler SATB arrangement.
General Information
Title: The History of a Lobster
Composer: Herbert Augustus Burney
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: SATB arrangement by Adolph Foster published ca. 1911, Reynolds & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
A dear little lobster once lived in the sea.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
So naughty and wicked unruly was he.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
He was told by his parents never to stray
From his nice little home, by night or by day,
But what ever they told him, he would have his way.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
This dear little shellfish one day espied,
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
A lobsterpot with the bait inside
With his eye-o, his eye-o.
Said he, “I’ll have a right good feed,”
Then he entered that pot with covetous greed;
But alas! poor fellow, he never was freed.
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
He soon was boiled, and with much care
Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho!
Was tinned by a firm in Soho Square,
Soho, Soho!
He was kept in stock by a grocer bold
For many a year before he was sold,
And when he was opened, the truth must be told,
He was high o,
very high ho!
“Gus” Burney