O my little sixpence!
Language: English
O my little sixpence! I love sixpence! I love sixpence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I lent another of it, I carried fourpence home to my wife. O my little fourpence! I love fourpence! I love fourpence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I lent another of it, I carried twopence home to my wife. O my little twopence! I love twopence! I love twopence better than my life; I spent a penny of it, I lent another of it, I carried nothing home to my wife. O my little nothing! I’ve got nothing! I’ve got nothing for the rest of my life; I can spend nothing, I can lend nothing, But I love nothing better than my wife.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Nicholas Marshall (b. 1942), "O my little sixpence!" [voice, sopranino saxophone, descant, treble recorder, and piano], from Carousel: Seven Children's Songs, no. 3, Forsyth Bros. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Mike Pearson
This text was added to the website: 2015-03-10
Line count: 24
Word count: 128