Little Bo-Peep (Henry Dancey)

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• (Posted 2023-10-09)  CPDL #76161:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 460 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Little Bo-Peep
Composer: Henry Dancey
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1883 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Little Bo-Peep
Has lost her sheep,
And cannot tell where to find them;
Let them alone
And they’ll come home
And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep
Fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
When she awoke,
She found it a joke,
Alas they were still fleeting.

Then up she took
Her little crook
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed,
But it made her heart bleed:
They’d left their tails behind them.

It happened one day
As Bo-Peep did stray
Over the hillocks hard by;
She espied the tails,
Side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh,
And gave by-and-by
Each careless sheep a banging;
And as for the rest,
She thought it was best,
To leave the tails a-hanging.