I Took a Tought

Lyricist. Harold Simpson

Publisher. Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd.

Date. 1908

Key/Range. G Minor (d' -- e")

COMMENTARY

The lyric by Harold Simpson reflects on the power of art, and specifically music, to cheer people when they are feeling down. Tours took the binary form of the poem and set the two stanzas first in G Minor and then G Major, suggesting that he may have wanted to illustrate the poem’s narrative as a shift from “grief and pain” to a relief from sorrow at the end.