As I was going to St. Ives (Obadiah Bruen Brown)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75818:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 557 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: As I Was Going to St. Ives
Composer: Obadiah Bruen Brown
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1890 Arthur P. Schmidt
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Original text and translations

English text

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits,
With kits and cats and sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Give it up!