# You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old

- Music: Liza Lehmann (died 1918)
- Words: Rudyard Kipling (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6573701

## The words

You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old Or  
your head will be sunk by your heels;  
For summer gales and killer whales Are bad for  
baby seals. No, you mustn’t swim till you’re  
six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by the  
heels; For summer gales and killer whales Are  
bad for baby seals, Are bad for baby seals,  
dear Rat, As bad as bad can be. But splash and  
grow strong And you can’t go wrong,  
Child of the open sea, Splash, grow strong,  
And you can’t go wrong, Child of the open sea.  
Ah! Ah! You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks  
old, Child of the open sea!  

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).