John Cage - Nowth upon Nacht | Текст песни

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"Nowth upon Nacht" in memoriam Cathy Berberian for (high) voice and piano (1984)

Joan La Barbara, voice
William Winant, piano
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nowth upon nacht, while in his tumbril Wachtman Havelook
seequeerscenes, from yonsides of the choppy, punkt by his
curserbog, went long the grassgross bumpinstrass that henders
the pubbel to pass, stowing his bottle in a hole for at whet his
whuskle to stench ecrooksman, sequestering for lover's lost pro-
pertied offices the leavethings from allpurgers' night, og gneiss
ogas gnasty, kikkers, brillers, knappers and bands, handsboon
and strumpers, sminkysticks and eddiketsflaskers;

(from "Finnegans Waker" by James Joyce)