Pie-ous Johnny Horner (Fred Coope)

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• (Posted 2023-10-05)  CPDL #76078:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05).   Score information: Letter, 21 pages, 844 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Pie-ous Johnny Horner
Composer: Fred Coope
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Nursery-rhyme, Humorous Song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1912 J. Wood & Sons
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Serene, elate, young Horner sate
(He of the ready thumb)
Sate snugly in his corner,
The gormandizing Horner;
His greedy eye had fixed a pie,
He wondered if ’twas plum.
And just to do away with doubt,
He from the pie pulled out,
To silence doubt pulled out,
A plum. Shocking!
O the naughty Johnny,
Greedy little sonnie,
’Twas clear to his precocious mind,
Some virtue in that pie he’d find,
And so he kept on thumbing,
He, so to speak, kept plumbing
The deeps of that capacious pie,
Till ne’er a plum was left to try,
Then lifting up his voice on high,
Cried, “Here a pie-ous boy am I.”

Serene, elate, as erst he sate
(He of the ready thumb)
Sits snugly in his corner,
The gormandizing Horner;
His greedy eye still fixing pie,
He wonders if ’tis plum.
And just to do away with doubt,
He from the pie a plum pulls out,
To silence doubt a plum pulls out,
A plum. Awful.

Little Johnny Horner,
Nestled in a corner
Of countless hearts who love to dwell
On days when Master Johnny’s spell
Its influence first shed o’er them,
As, pictured there before them.
Himself would ply with Christmas pie,
Delighted as he raised the cry,
“Lo, here a pie-ous boy am I,
A good, good, good, good boy am I!”

Based on the Nursery Rhyme