Laughing Song
William Blake * Track #10 On Songs of Innocence
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Album Songs of Innocence
- #1Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
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- #2The Shepherd
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- #3The Echoing Green
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- #4The Lamb
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- #5The Little Black Boy (Songs of Innocence)
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- #6The Blossom
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- #7The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
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- #8
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- #9The Little Boy Found (Songs of Innocence)
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- #10Laughing Song
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- #11A Cradle Song
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- #12The Divine Image (Songs of Innocence)
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- #13Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence)
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- #14Night
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- #15Infant Joy
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- #16A Dream
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- #17On Anothers Sorrow
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- #18The Litle Girl Lost
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Laughing Song by William Blake
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William BlakeAbout
From Blake’s Songs of Innocence, published in 1794, this was one of the series of poems which present an idealised world, in contrast to the harsh realities of late 18th and early 19th Century life during the time of King George III, known — ironically given the terrible social conditions of the tim...
Laughing Song Annotated
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by
When the air does laugh with our merry wit
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it
When the meadows laugh with lively green
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread
Come live, and be merry, and join with me
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!"
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Who wrote Laughing Song's ?
Laughing Song was written by William Blake.