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BTC940 LE ROI S'EN VA-T'EN CHASSE ('THE KING IS GONE A-HUNTING) [FSA 2/4, FRANCE]

For high or medium voice and piano
Composition date: Dec 1942
Genre: Folk song
Text: Traditional (set in French)
Duration: 2'
Dedication: 'To my young friends, Arnold and Humphrey Gyde'

Sons of the singer Sophie Wyss. Dedicatees of the published volume.

Notes

Volume 2 of his folksongs as a set and, unusually, added a date to the composition draft.

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