by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
On buying a horse
Language: English
One white foot, try him; Twi white feet, buy him; Three white feet, put him in the dray; Four white feet, give him away; Four white feet and a white nose, Take off his hide and feed him to the crows
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Judith Weir (b. 1954), "On buying a horse", 1991. [medium voice and piano] [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Martin Jahn
This text was added to the website: 2016-02-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 41