Video Information

• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: A Sad Song
• Composer:  Randall Thompson
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SSAA
• Genres: Classical
• "A Sad Song" by Randall Thompson, from the song cycle "Rosemary". Text by Stephen Vincent Benét.
  
  Recorded live on Thursday, July 3, 2014, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Gir...  more"A Sad Song" by Randall Thompson, from the song cycle "Rosemary". Text by Stephen Vincent Benét.
  
  Recorded live on Thursday, July 3, 2014, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.
  
  Rosemary, Rosemary,
  There's a Pig in your garden,
  With silk bristles frizzy
  And tushes of snow!
  But Rosemary was cautious,
  She said, "Beg your pardon!
  I'm really too busy
  To look down below."
  
  Rosemary, Rosemary,
  There's a Bird in your kitchen!
  His voice is gold water,
  He says, "Pretty Poll!"
  But Rosemary heard nothing,
  Putting stitch after stitch in
  The dress of a daughter,
  Her thirty-sixth doll.
  
  Rosemary, Rosemary,
  A silver-ringed Rabbit!
  He bridles and gentles
  And wants you astride!
  "I prefer," said Rosemary,
  "To ride a Good Habit."
  She went buying black lentils-
  She did till she died.  less