The swing | How do you like to go up in a swing

How do you like to go up in a swing

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

How do you like to go up in a swing,
  Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
  Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
  Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
  Over the countryside -

Till I look down on the garden green,
  Down on the roof so brown -
Up in the air I go flying again,
  Up in the air and down!

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• J. Eidson • A. Foerster • H. Hadley • R. Hahn • L. Lehmann • O. Morawetz

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The swing", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [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 Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Swing song", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse" [sung text not yet checked]
by John Chorbajian (b. 1936), "The swing", 1966 [ children's chorus, flute, and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Crawford , "The swing", published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "The swing", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
by (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven (1859 - 1920), "The swing", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Eidson , "The swing", 2010 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs of Enchantment and Wonder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Edward Falk , "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "The swing", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Joseph Groocock , "How do you like to go up in a swing", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858 - 1940?), "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Six songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "The swing", op. 29 no. 2, published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Four Stevenson Songs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "The swing", 1915, published 1917 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Little Songs, no. 1, Éd. Heugel, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Burton E. Hardin , "The swing", op. 23 no. 1 (<<1979), copyright © 1983 [ tenor or soprano, horn, and piano or strings ], from Flights of Fancy, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Marjorie Helyer , "The swing", published 1957 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Percy Charles Judd (1892 - ?), "The swing", published 1925 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "The swing", published 1893 [ soprano and piano ], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Daniel Gregory Mason (1873 - 1953), "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Five Children's Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Moore (1886 - 1946), "Swing song", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Oskar Morawetz (b. 1917), "The swing", 1985, from Souvenirs from Childhood, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by David Moule-Evans (b. 1905), "The swing", published <<1951 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marvin Radnor , "The swing", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Swing", op. 103 (1946) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "The swing", published 1963 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "The swing", published 1933 [ unaccompanied voice ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879 - 1943), "The swing", published 1915 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Eleanor Smith , "The swing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Song Pictures [sung text not yet checked]
by Muriel Thomas , "The swing", published 1957 [ medium unison chorus and piano ], from Four songs for children, also set in Welsh (translation by Wil Ifan) [sung text not yet checked]
by John Brown Russell Whitfield , "The swing", published 1955 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrick Williams (1905 - 1985), "The swing", published 1961 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by William Luton Wood , "The swing", published 1915-7 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "The swing", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Léna (1859 - 1928) ; composed by Reynaldo Hahn.

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 81

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