Jack Horner (Theodore Distin)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-01-09). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 276 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Jack Horner
Composer: Theodore Distin
Lyricist: Traditional
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1881
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
Jack Horner was a pretty lad,
Near London he did dwell;
His father's heart he made full glad,
His mother loved him well;
While little Jack was sweet and young,
If he should chance to cry
His mother pretty sonnets sung,
With lullababy, by.
A pretty lad, a curious wit,
All people spoke in his praise,
And in the corner he would sit,
On Christmas holidays,
and said, Jack Horner, in the corner,
eats good Christmas pie,
And with his thumbs pulls out the plums,
Crying "What a good boy was I."