by Ishikawa Takuboku (1885 - 1912)
Translation © by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)
I do not know why
Language: English  after the Japanese (日本語)
I do not know why [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), copyright © 1974 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Ishikawa Takuboku (1885 - 1912) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Stephen Chatman (b. 1950), "I do not know why", from 7 Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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