Lyr Req: Tom Twist

Subject: Tom Twist
From:
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:21 PM

Would like lyrics to Tom Twist. My father recited this as a very long poem (verse).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: 53
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:29 PM

can't help, sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:29 PM

This one?
~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:52 PM

Or, a little closer to home:  TOM TWIST.

53: if you can't help, there doesn't really seem a great deal of point in saying anything.  If you're genuinely interested in helping, a good thing to do would be to have a look at the FAQ thread on the main Forum page, where you will find out about searching techniques among many other things.  Tom Twist, for example, can be found by typing tom twist into the "Digitrad and Forum Search" box on the main Forum page, and hitting "GO".  There are several search engines available on this site, but that's the best one.  It occasionally stops working for a while; at times like that, you can quite often get into it via this alternative link:  http://www.mudcat.org/@NewSSResults.cfm.  There are other workarounds, but that's probably enough to be going on with.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 10:58 PM

I found this book at a used book site in Japan. It says "a nineteen century ballad."

Dodge, Mary
The Amazing Adventures Of One Tom Twist
Anderson Printing Co, Romeo, Michigan, 1968.
5-1/2x8-1/2, 55p. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Based on a nineteenth century ballad, charmingly illustrated. Soft.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:02 PM

It was a standard recitation found within the McGuffy Readers 4th level used in United States education at the turn of the 19th/20th century.

If you father is living he should be 85 to 100 y.o.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tom Twist
From: masato sakurai
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 07:54 AM

There's an opera version: Libby Larsen's Tom Twist: A Musical Narrative for Small Orchestra, Narrator & Mime (Libretto by William Alan Butler).
~Masato