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Thread #939   Message #2573917
Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Feb-09 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Swing and swing on the garden gate...
Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT I LIKE (Seegmiller, Chadwick)
Coralena hasn't posted—under that name, anyway—since 1998. I don't care; this is like solving a puzzle, and is its own reward.

I found this song in Teacher's Manual ... for the Progressive Music Series by Horatio William Parker, Osbourne McConathy, Edward Bailey Birge, William Otto Miessner (Sacramento: California State Printing Department, 1918)


WHAT I LIKE
Words, Wilhelmina Seegmiller.
Music, George W. Chadwick, "Composed for this series."

I like to ride on a load of hay,
To tramp in puddles on a rainy day,
To swing and swing on the garden gate,
And when there's company, to sit up late.
I like high up in the trees to climb,
To eat sugar cookies, six or sev'n at a time;
But some things I like, it's best not to do,
So I can't do all that I like. Can you?

[The book also has sheet music.]