Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (Frederic Scholes)

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• (Posted 2023-12-06)  CPDL #77896:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 559 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Composer: Frederic Scholes
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1903 Leonard & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Based on the nursery rhyme

Tom, Tom the piper’s son
Stole a pig, and ran away, away he ran.
      Tom! Tom! how could you steal a pig?
          Oh! Thomas, Oh! Tom.
          Naughty Tommy, naughty Tom.
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went howling down the street;

For Tom, having received a severe castigation,
because he, Tom, had appropriated to his own use, a pig,
not His property, but the property of another;
And, feeling sore in body,
as a consequence of the said castigation,
which had doubtless been vigorously administer’d,
went howling down the street.

Poor Tom!
Poor pig!