by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
Language: English
The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, He turns and looks at me. My man, from sky to sky's so far, We never crossed before; Such leagues apart the world's ends are, We're like to meet no more. What thoughts at heart have you and I We cannot stop to tell; But dead or living, drunk or dry, Soldier, I wish you well.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 22, first published 1896 [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 Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", op. 14 no. 3b (1940), published 1983 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960), "The street", 1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread" [ bass-baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Crerar , "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", 1956 [ high voice and piano ], from Housman Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", published <<1944 [ voice and piano ], from Five "Shropshire Lad" Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The encounter", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from The Land of Lost Content, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Soldier, I wish you well", alternate title: "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", published 1911 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Humphrey Searle (1915 - 1982), "March Past" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread", 1904, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from A Shropshire Lad, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "The street sounds to the soldiers' tread" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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