# The Starling

- Music: Liza Lehmann (died 1918)
- Words: A.S. (unknown)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6421627

## The words

On her nest, with her young, Sat the Starling  
in the steeple,  
While below the great bell swung To the church  
to call the people.  
”Mother, mother,” cried the starlings,  
”What is that? oh mother, tell!”  
“Don’t be frightened, little darlings,  
'Tis the great church bell, Ringing out its  
solemn warning, That the people far and near  
All may know 'tis Sunday morning,  
And make haste to gather here. While the  
organ’s sweetly playing Little birds need  
have no fear! While below the folk are praying,  
You can sing your hymns up here!”  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).