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Text Authorship:

• by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Allan Blank (b. 1925), "The ferryman", published 1969 [ voice, piano duet ], from Escapades: Songs for Rote and Piano Duet [sung text not yet checked]
• by Matthew Emery (b. 1991), "Ferry me across the water ", 2013, published 2013 [ 2-part chorus and piano ], Houston, Alliance Music [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), "Ferry me across the water", published 1924 [ 2-part chorus of equal voices, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993), "The ferryman", published 1952 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "Ferry me across the water ", 1984, first performed 1984 [ voice and piano trio ], from Three Silent Things, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "Ferry me across the water", 1983-2002, first performed 2002 [ voice and piano ], from Letting Go, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marjorie Helyer , "The ferryman", published 1957 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Ferry me across the water", op. 23 (Two songs) no. 2, published 1912 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The ferry", 1921, published 1921 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by John Basil Hugh Longmire (1902 - 1986), "Ferry me across the water", published 1964 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Lord (b. 1944), "The ferryman", published 1965 [ chorus (singing in unison or antiphonally), piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Dorothy Parke , "The ferryman", published 1962 [ unison chorus with optional second part, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Ferry me across the water", published 1924 [ voice, piano ], J. B. Cramer & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Ferry me across the water", from The Nantucket Songs, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "Ferry me across the water", published 1934 [ chorus a cappella ], from the collection Introduction to Part Singing [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sebastian Scott , "Ferry me across the water", published 1920 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Cecil Sharman (1894 - ?), "Ferry me across the water", published 1936 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Four Rossetti Poems [sung text not yet checked]
• by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "The ferryman", published 1917 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Ferry me across the water", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Felix Gerald Swinstead (1880 - 1959), "The maid and the ferry", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Sing-Song Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eric Harding Thiman (1900 - 1975), "The ferry", published 1928 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Wardale , "The ferryman", published 1956 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "The ferryman", published 1959 [ unison children's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 58