Category: Medium & low voice
Buffalo Bill’s defunct – low voice
low voice, piano
From the theatrical and humorous song cycle, “Cowboy songs”, on texts by e e cummings.
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Program Note
“Buffalo Bill’s defunct” is the final movement of the six-movement song cycle “Cowboy Songs”, on texts by e e cummings. Individual movements may be performed separately.
Text
Text by e e cummings
Buffalo Bill’s defunct – medium voice – Karen P. Thomas
if you can’t eat – medium voice
medium voice, piano
From the theatrical and humorous song cycle, “Cowboy songs”, on texts by e e cummings.
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Program Note
“if you can’t eat” is the fifth movement of the six-movement song cycle “Cowboy Songs”, on texts by e e cummings. Individual movements may be performed separately.
Text
if you can’t eat you got to
smoke and we aint got nothing to smoke:
come on kid
let’s go to sleep
if you can’t smoke you got to
sing and we aint got nothing to sing
come on kid
let’s go to sleep
if you can’t sing you got to
die and we aint got nothing to die
come on kid
let’s go to sleep
if you can’t die you got to
dream and we aint got nothing to dream
(come on kid
let’s go to sleep)
Text by e e cummings
eyes to no one – medium voice
medium voice, piano
From the theatrical and humorous song cycle, “Cowboy songs”, on texts by e e cummings.
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Program Note
“eyes to no one” is the second movement of the six-movement song cycle “Cowboy Songs”, on texts by e e cummings. Individual movements may be performed separately.
Text
eyes to no one
in particular
she gasped almost loudly
i’m so drunk
dear
Text by e e cummings
nobody loses all the time – medium voice
medium voice, piano
Continue reading “nobody loses all the time – medium voice”
spoke joe to jack – medium voice
medium voice, piano
Continue reading “spoke joe to jack – medium voice”
Sam was a man – medium voice
medium voice, piano
Continue reading “Sam was a man – medium voice”
Buffalo Bill’s defunct – medium voice
medium voice, piano
From the theatrical and humorous song cycle, “Cowboy songs”, on texts by e e cummings.
Listen
Program Note
“Buffalo Bill’s defunct” is the final movement of the six-movement song cycle “Cowboy Songs”, on texts by e e cummings. Individual movements may be performed separately.
Text
Buffalo Bill ‘s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
Text by e e cummings