BTC518 EYE WINKER, TOM TINKER, NOSE DROPPER

For voice and piano, J. opC 13c

Applies to the third rhyme only (see 'The queen of hearts').

Composition date: ca. Jan 1927
Genre: Solo vocal
Text: From four nursery rhymes

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  • Eye winker, Tom Tinker, nose dropper, mouth eater, chin chopper
  • There was a crooked man
  • The queen of hearts >>
    notes:

    Britten has paired this rhyme with 'Sing a song of 6d' (1923, score missing) in his handwritten catalogue of works (compiled ca. Jan 1928) and given them both the number J. opC 13c.

  • If I'd as much money as I could spend