Little Jack Horner (Charles King Hall)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76578:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 648 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Little Jack Horner
Composer: Charles King Hall
Lyricist: Edward Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1888 Orsborn & Tuckwood
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

    Little Jack Horner
    Sat in a corner
Eating a Christmas pie,
    Though why Master Horner
    Should sit in a corner
I cannot conceive, not I!

    It does not appear
    That he suffered from fear
Of other boys stealing his pie,
    So why Johnny Horner
    Should sit in a corner,
I cannot conceive, not I!

    But on with the story,
    There all in his glory,
Slyly he put in his thumb.
    Some doubting will linger,
    Pray why not his finger?
And neatly extracted a plum!

    ’Twould have been a great boon
    To have lent him a spoon,
For the dear little fellow could then
    Have taken up two,
    As most other boys do,
And tucked in again and again!

    Little Jack Horner,
    Still in the corner,
Finished the Christmas pie,
    And then Master Horner
    Observed from the corner,
“Oh, what a good boy am I!”

    The moral is dark,
    I would beg to remark,
Its beauty remarkably small,
    For who was forlorner
    Than poor Johnny Horner?
Bah! there’s no moral at all!