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Jennie and David's Sheet Music
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Cabaret Songs
Music by David Alpher. Lyrics by Jennie Litt

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Anatomy of a Dream

Motivational power ballad

M, F

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A Brooklyn Lullaby

Ballad, children’s

M, F

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Christmas In The Doghouse

Comedy, Christmas, uptempo

M, F

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The Cosmic Perspective

Ballad

M, F

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Going Nowhere Fast

Mixed tempi, satirical

M, F

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The Harper's Life

Traditional English-Irish ballad pastiche; story song

M

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He Knows It All

Ballad

M, F

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Hello In There

Ballad

F

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Hot

Uptempo, jazzy

M, F

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How I Learned To Ride My Bike

Boogie-woogie, story song, children’s; ensemble or solo

M, F

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I Want To Be A TV Chef

Uptempo, comedy

F

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If I Were

Midtempo, love song, children’s

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Lovers Growing Old

Ballad, love song

M, F

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Make Yourself At Home

Uptempo, comedy

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Marriage

Pop ballad, love song

F

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A Nineteenth-Century Death

Jacques Brel-esque story song, midtempo

M, F

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Nothing But A Highway

Midtempo, country

M, F

The Old Family Nuke

Midtempo, comedy

M, F

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The Public Transportation Rag

Ragtime, tongue-in-cheek “green” anthem

M, F

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She's An Overachiever!

Uptempo, comedy

F

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Swingin' On A Gate

Midtempo, children’s

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The Things That Make Us Sing

Anthemic ballad

M version, F version

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Thirty-Two Bars

Ballad, torch song

F

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This Old Year

Ballad, New Year’s Eve song

M, F

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Thong Song

Midtempo, comedy

M, F

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Two Apples

Story song

M, F

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The Voyage Of The Manatee

Story song

M, F

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Waiting

Comedy

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We've All Got To Live In This World . . .

Blues

M, F

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Who Cares

Ballad

F

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You and Your Big Nose

Comedy

F

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You Gave Me Today

Ballad, love song, wedding song

M, F

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Your Standard Standard

Midtempo Latin ballad

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Art Songs
Music by David Alpher

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Dark Lines

Virginia Hamilton Adair

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The Field’s Edge

     1. Beginning

James Wright

     2. Fear Is What Quickens Me

James Wright

     3. Rain

James Wright

     4. Autumnal

James Wright

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     5. Arriving In The Country Again

James Wright

Hinting of Other Places

     1. Harbingers

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

     2. Little Box House

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

     3. Something Was Left Unsaid

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

     4. Loves

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

     5. She Wears Her Face

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

     6. Last Night A Foreign Thing

Anne Spencer Lindbergh

Lullaby

Thomas Dekker

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The Oxen

Thomas Hardy

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The Sometime Dancer Blues

Donald Justice

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Songs of Transcendance

     1. Two Rivers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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     2. Earthsong

Walt Whitman

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     3. Smoke

Henry David Thoreau

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     4. Leaves in Autumn

Jones Very

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     5. Dryad Song

Margaret Fuller

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     6. The Columbine

Jones Very

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Songs on Texts by Marsden Hartley

     1. Summer Evening

Marsden Hartley

     2. Salutations to a Mouse

Marsden Hartley

     3. The Eagle Wants No Friends

Marsden Hartley

     4. Robin Hood Cove, Georgetown, Maine

Marsden Hartley

     5. Marsden Hartley #5

Marsden Hartley

     6. Marsden Hartley #6

Marsden Hartley

Songs on the Passage of Time

     1. Magnolia

Lisel Mueller

     2. All Wall

Robert Creeley

     3. The Dead

Mark Strand

     4. My Grandmother’s Ghost

James Wright

     5. When You Are Old

William Butler Yeats

Sunflower

William Blake

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