music        news/events        bio        contact        recordings The Good Moolly Cow 1989 SATB chorus  duration 6' first performance: The Bemidji Choir, cond. Paul Brandvik Bangsberg Recital Hall, BSU Bemidji / May 14, 1992 SCORE The Good Moolly Cow Heaven The Mouse's Lullaby TEXTS The Good Moolly Cow Come! supper is ready Come! boys and girls now, For here is fresh milk From the good moolly cow. Have done with your fife And your row de dow Dow, And taste this sweet milk From the good moolly cow.  Whoever is fretting must clear up his brow, Or he'll have no milk From the good moolly cow.  And here is Miss Pussy; She means by mee ow,  Give me too some milk From the good moolly cow.  When children are hungry, Oh who can tell how They love the fresh milk From the good moolly cow.  So when you meet moolly Please say, with a bow, “Thank you for your milk, Mrs. Good Moolly Cow.”  Eliza Follen (1787–1860)  Heaven Oh who will show me those delights on high I (echo) Thou Echo, thou art mortall, all men know No. Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves? Leaves. And are there any leaves that still abide? Bide. What leaves are they? impart the matter wholly Holy. Are holy leaves the Echo then of blisse? Yes. Then tell me, what is that supreme delight? Light. Light to the minde: what shall the will enjoy? Joy. But are there cares and businesse with the pleasure? Leisure. Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever? Ever  George Herbert (1593–1633)  The Mouse's Lullaby Oh, rock-a-by, baby mouse, rock-a-by, so! When baby's asleep to the baker´s I'll go, And while he's not looking I´ll pop from a hole, And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll.  Palmer Cox (1840–1924)