Thought For A Sunshiny Morning - (1989)    

Dorothy Parker

for medium high voice

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It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm....
 

This text remains under copyright and is therefore not fully reproduced as a stand-alone text herein.

 

  [ 1 page, circa 35" ]

 

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Dorothy Parker

 

Five song settings of her poetry are titled the Love Songs of Dorothy Parker (including a short biography), and a page for another one-page song, Marie of Roumania, are at those links.

 

Given that death and humor about this most normal human experience is ubiquitous across poets, I found this short four-line stanza amusing, and set it to a gentle step-wise chordal accompaniment.

 

 

The score for Thought for a Sunshiny Morning is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer and the copyright holder of the text, the King estate. Click on the graphic below for this piano-vocal score.

 

Thought for a Sunshiny Morning