Category: Solo Vocal
Buffalo Bill’s defunct – 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
“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
If you can’t eat – high voice
high 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