I Like To Play With Him by Tom Schnauber

A setting of Stevie Smith's "I Like to Play With Him" for soprano and piano

Kristen Watson, soprano; Linda Osborn, piano

I like to play with him
He would be so lovely to play with
He is so solemn sensitive conceited
He would be lovely to play with
I could pretend
Say so-and-so and so-and-so
Watch his responses
How'd he take that today
And this tomorrow,
Mood, tense, you see
I'd conjugate His Inexcellency.

Oh on that evening you were
So charming enchanting touching
Lost wounded and betrayed
Oh that should have only been the beginning.