“I sing for maidens and boys.”
Virginibus puerisque canto.
Book III, ode i, line 4
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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Variant: Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hempen string
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Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) American country singer
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
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Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
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“If you are a piano,
You will laugh on ev'ry string,
And if you are a girl or boy,
You'll sing.”
Malvina Reynolds (1900–1978) American folk singer
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The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
