"(When I'm Dead) Sing No Sad Songs" [The Kruger Brothers]

"(When I'm Dead) Sing No Sad Songs" [The Kruger Brothers]

First line of lyrics: When I'm dead, my dearest

Kruger, Jens; music

Kruger, Uwe; music

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1996 [copyright]

genre: song|folk

solo: voice

instrumentation: guitar|bass|banjo

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Recordings: "(When I'm Dead) Sing No Sad Songs." Access All Areas. Performance by Jens Kruger, vocals and banjo, Uwe Kruger, vocals and guitar, Joel Landsberg, vocals and bass. Blue Martin Records, 1996.
"When I'm Dead My Dearest." Between the Notes. Performance by Jens Kruger, vocals and banjo, Uwe Kruger, vocals and guitar, Joel Landsberg, vocals and bass. Double Time Music, 2009.

Notes: The setting was re-released as "When I'm Dead My Dearest" in 2009.

Format 1: sound recording

performance time 3 minutes and 47 seconds

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-kruger-kruger

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