Three Learics - Geoff Allan

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"Three nonsense poems by the wonderful Edward Lear. I have set only some of the verses and I have slightly amended some of the words. Written for Linda Hardwick and her Colwall Youth Choir. The three songs are : Calico Pie, The Jumblies, The Duck and the Kangaroo"

◈ Genre → Children's songs

♯ Key G major

⁄ Time Signature 6/8

♬ Voicing → SS

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C0 – F6

¶ Language → English

Measures 319

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 24

CPDL # 84941

Editor Geoff Allan

Posted 2025-05-17

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Voices 1

D4 – F6

Voices 2

B-1 – A5

MusicXML Part

C0 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

'''1. Calico Pie Calico Pie, The little Birds fly Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang 'Tillyloo!' Till away they flew, And they never came back to me! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! Calico Jam, The little Fish swam Over the syllabub sea, He took off his hat To the Sole and the Sprat, And the Willebywat, But he never came back to me! He never came back! He never came back! He never came back to me! Calico Ban, The little Mice ran, To be ready in time for tea, Flippityflup, They drank it all up, And danced in the cup, But they never came back to me! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! Calico Drum, The Grasshoppers come, The Butterfly, Beetle, and Bee, Over the ground, Around and around, With a hop and a bound But they never came back! They never came back! They never came back! They never came back to me! ---- '''2. The Jumblies Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea! And when the Sieve turned round and round, And ev'ry one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’ They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big, But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig! In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’ Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve. They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, To a land all covered with trees, And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they bought a Pig, and some green Jackdaws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of RingBoRee, And no end of Stilton Cheese. Far and few, far and few, Are the