When Papa Was a Boy (John David Brunk)
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- (Posted 2023-09-28) CPDL #75826:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 541 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: When Papa Was a Boy
Composer: John David Brunk
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1911 The Fillmore Bros.
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Original text and translations
English text
When Papa was a little boy,
You really couldn’t find
In all the state of Washington
A child so quick to mind.
His mother never called but once,
And Pa was always there;
He never made the baby cry,
Or pulled his sister’s hair.
He never scraped his muddy shoes
Upon the parlor floor,
And never answered back his Ma,
And never banged the door.
“But truly, I could never see,”
Said little Dick Malloy,
“How he could never do these things,
And really be a boy!”
He never slid down banisters
Or made the slightest noise;
And never in his life was known
To fight with other boys.
He always studied hard at school,
And got his lessons right;
And chopping wood and milking cows
Were Papa’s chief delight.
He always rose at six o’clock
And went to bed at eight,
And never lay abed till noon,
And never sat up late.
He finished Latin, French and Greek,
When he was ten years old,
And knew the Spanish alphabet
As soon as he was told.
He never grumbled when he had
To do the evening chores,
And ne’er in all his life forgot
To shut the stable doors.
He never, never thought of play,
Until his work was done;
He labored from the break of day
Until the set of sun.