Song Lyrics Appearing First as Poems (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

I appreciate the help of all those who have responded, but please note that I explicitly did not want well-known poems that were set to music.  My interest is in well-known songs, generally thought of as songs, that had a precursor poem published.

Fred Shapiro



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Simon and Garfunkel released a version of E. A. Robinson's "Richard
Cory", but it didn't use the same words for the lyrics.

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> I hope I will be forgiven exploiting the general knowledgeability of
> people on this list with a query that has virtually no relevance to
> linguistics.  I recently read that the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's 1967
> song "Suzanne" appeared earlier as a poem in a 1966 book of his.  Are
> there other examples of well-known song lyrics that appeared earlier
as
> poems?  I am not talking about well-known poems that were also made
> into songs, but rather about texts that are usually thought of as
songs
> but were actually first poems.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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