Horace, Odes, Book III, ode i, line 4
Misattributed
Virginibus puerisque canto.
“I sing for maidens and boys.”
Virginibus puerisque canto.
Book III, ode i, line 4
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Act III, scene 2. Song.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, (c. 1617; revised c. 1627–30; published 1639)
Variant: Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
Under the gallow-tree.
Greenback Dollar (1963)
Context: When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.
Travel where you will and grow to be a man
And sing what must be sung, poor boy
Sing what must be sung."
Why Do Little Girls?
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
“If you are a piano,
You will laugh on ev'ry string,
And if you are a girl or boy,
You'll sing.”
Song There's Music In The Air
“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
