I Have a Little Song to Sing
Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Jeg synge vil en lille sang
- Dutch: Ik wil iets vriend’lijks doen vandaag
- English: I Have a Little Song to Sing
- Finnish: Voin hetken vielä leikkiä
- French: Je dois chanter un petit chant
- German: Ich singe euch ein Liedchen vor
- Icelandic: Nú syng ég glaður
- Italian: Voglie cantare una breve canzone
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Jeg synge vil en liten sang
- Portuguese: Uma Canção eu sei cantar
- Samoan: O Si Au Pese Laitiiti E Usu
- Spanish: Un canto aprenderé
- Swedish: Jag sjunga vill en sång för dig
- Tongan: ʻOku ʻi ai ha kiʻi Hiva
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Most common tunes for “I Have a Little Song to Sing”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “I Have a Little Song to Sing” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1914 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Songs of Sixpence (1914), 9.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
I have a little song to sing, A little game to play. A task to do for someone’s sake, Before the close of day.
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