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On this page, our Stage School students can find all the lyrics to all our exam songs. Click the link below and find the lyrics to your song. If it's not red yet, it's not there yet!

Click on the link to take you to your drama poem and click on the poet's name to link to an info page about them for your research.

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As time goes on on this page, we will have more interesting stuff for the TSSPA stage school kids to look at etc, but for now with the exams coming up this page will remain for lyrics and poems etc. If anyone has ideas though of things that could go on this page, email kidszone@theatrestreet.com with your suggestions.

Singing Exam Songs

Bronze	Silver	Gold	Bronze Star	Silver Star	Gold Star	First Shield
Doe, A Deer	Castle on a Cloud	Tomorrow	Ben	Colours of the Wind	Out Here on my Own	Hopelessly Devoted to You
	Never Fully Dressed	Consider Yourself	Part of that World	Wouldn't it be Lovely	I'm Not That Girl	Because of You
	Little People	Where is Love	Who Will Buy	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Popular	It's A Fine Life
		Hard Knock Life	Children of Eden	No-one But You (duet)	Good Morning Baltimore	Waiting for Life
			Wish Upon A Star	Eternal Flame		Just Around the Corner
			I'd Do Anything (duet)			Cabaret
						I Know Him So Well (duet)

Drama Exams (Prep-Grade 3)

	Prep	Primary	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3
Poem	Bed in Summer	The Lamplighter	The ABC Poem	Clothes	Lulu
Mime	Decorating the Christmas Tree (1 min max)	Taking the Dog for a Walk (2 mins)	Down on the Beach (2 mins)	Baking a Cake (2 mins)	Tidying Your Bedroom (2 mins)
Theory	Revise theory on author. A short talk with examiner on pieces presented.	Revise theory on author. A short talk with examiner on pieces presented.	A short talk with examiner on pieces presented.	Describe your mime. A short talk with examiner on pieces presented.	A short talk with examiner on pieces presented.
Reading	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Own Choice (Max 1 minute)
Project	N/A	N/A	Your poem and the "Life & Times of the Poet" must be handwritten or typed	Your poem and the "Life & Times of the Poet" must be handwritten or typed	Click here for info

Eternal Flame

Close your eyes
Give me your hand, darlin'
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Or am I only dreaming
Is this burnin' an eternal flame

I believe
It's meant to be, darlin'
I watch you when you are sleeping
You belong with me
Do you feel the same
Or am I only dreaming
Is this burnin' an eternal flame

Say my name
Sun shines trough the rain
Of all life so lonely
And come and ease the pain
I don't wanna lose this feeling

Ooh

Close your eyes
Give me your hand, darlin'
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Or am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame

I’m not that girl

Hands touch, eyes meet
Sudden silence, sudden heat
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl
He could be that boy
But I'm not that girl:

Don't dream too far
Don't lose sight of who you are
Don't remember that rush of joy
He could be that boy
I'm not that girl

Ev'ry so often we long to steal
To the land of what-might-have-been
But that doesn't soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in

Blithe smile, lithe limb
She who's winsome, she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
That's the girl he chose
And Heaven knows
I'm not that girl:

Don't wish, don't start
Wishing only wounds the heart
I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl
There's a girl I know
He loves her so
I'm not that girl

Bronze -

Doe a Deer

Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)
Rpt all

Castle on a Cloud

There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my castle on a cloud.

There is a room that's full of toys,
There are a hundred boys and girls,
Nobody shouts or talks too loud,
Not in my castle on a cloud.

There is a lady all in white,
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,
She says "My child, I love you very much."

I know a place where no one's lost,
I know a place where no one cries,
Crying at all is not allowed,
Not in my castle on a cloud.

Never Fully Dressed

Hey, hobo man
Hey, Dapper Dan
You've both got your style
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Your clothes may be Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile --
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Who cares what they're wearing
On Main Street,
Or Saville Row,
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe
(That matters)

So, Senator,
So, Janitor,
So long for a while
Remember,
You're never fully dressed

Though you may wear the best

You’re never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Little People

They laugh at me, these fellows, just because I am small.
They laugh at me because I'm not a hundred feet tall.
I tell 'em there's a lot to learn down here on the ground.
The world is big but little people turn it around.

A worm can roll a stone.
A bee can sting a bear.
A fly can fly around versailles 'cos flies don't care
A sparrow in a hat, can make a happy home.
A flea can bite the bottom of the pope in rome

and little people know
when little people fight,
we may look easy pickings
but we got some bite!
so never kick a dog
because it's just a pup
and we'll fight like twenty armies
and we won't give up
so you'd better run for cover when the pup grows up

Tomorrow

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!

Consider Yourself

Consider yourself at home.
Consider yourself one of the family.
We've taken to you so strong.
It's clear we're going to get along.
Consider yourself well in
Consider yourself part of the furniture.
There isn't a lot to spare.
Who cares?

Whatever we've got we share!

If it should chance to be
We should see
Some harder days
Empty larder days
Why grouse?
Always a-chance we'll meet
Somebody to foot the bill
Then the drinks are on the house!
Consider yourself our mate.
We don't want to have no fuss,
For after some consideration, we can state...
Consider yourself
One of us!

Part of that World

Look at this stuff, Isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the girl
The girl who has everything?
Look at this trove, Treasures untold
How many wonders can one cavern hold?
Looking around here you think
Sure, she's got everything
I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty
I've got whozits and whatzits galore
You want thingamabobs?
I've got twenty!
But who cares?
No big deal - I want more

I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see them dancin'
Walking around on those - what do you call 'em?
Oh - feet!

Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far
Legs are required for jumping, dancing
Strolling along down a - what's that word again?
Street

Up where they walk, up where they run
Up where they stay all day in the sun
Wanderin' free - wish I could be
Part of that world

What would I give if I could live out of these waters?
What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?
Bet'cha on land they understand
That they don't reprimand their daughters
Proper women sick of swimmin' - Ready to stand

And ready to know what the people know
Ask 'em my questions and get some answers
What's a fire and why does it - what's the word?
Burn?

When's it my turn?
Wouldn't I love, love to explore that world up above?
Out of the sea
Wish I could be
Part of that world

Colours of the Wind

You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know

And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

Hard Knock Life

It's the hard-knock life for us!
It's the hard-knock life for us!
'Steada treated, We get tricked!
'Steada kisses, We get kicked!

It's the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It's the hard-knock row we know!
Cotton blankets,
'Steada of wool!
Empty Bellies
'Steada of full!
It's the hard-knock life!

Don't it feel like the wind is always howlin'?
Don't it seem like there's never any light!
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?
It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy!
No one cares if you grow...or if you shrink!
No one dries when your eyes get wet an' weepy!
From all the cryin' you would think this place's a sink!
Ohhhh!!!!!!!

Santa Claus we never see
Santa Claus, what's that,
-- who's he?
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage!

It's the hard-knock life for us
It's the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage

It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life
It's the hard-knock life!

Where is Love?

Where is love?

Does it fall from skies above?

Is it underneat the willow tree

That I've been dream of?



Where is she?

Who I close my eyes to see?

Will I ever know the sweet "hello"

That's only meant for me?

Who can say where she may hide?
Must I travel far and wide?
'Til I am bedside the someone who
I can mean somethin to ...
Where...?
Where is love?

Who can say where...she may hide?
Must I travel...far and wide?
'Til I am beside...the someone who
I can mean...something to...
Where?
Where is love?

BEN

Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me
(you've got a friend in me)

Ben, you're always running here and there
You feel you're not wanted anywhere
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's one thing you should know
You've got a place to go
(you've got a place to go)

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
Ben, most people would turn you away
I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben
(a friend) Like Ben
(like Ben) Like Ben

Jungle Rhythm

That morning sun peaks over the mountains
and all the rhinos rub their eyes
when they hear (hear what?)
hear the jungle rhythm

those birds are tap tap tappin’ the tree trunks
the busy bee hums as he flies
loud and clear, to the jungle rhythm

now you can high tail it outta the jungle
but it never leaves your heart
first you feel that beat start bubblin’ under then hear the tom toms loudest thunder
It's movin me!
sounds alot like bein free
when you feeel, feel the jungle rhythm (feel the jungle rhythm)

cant do without rhythm
and when it fills the air, animals everywhere
join in the daaance
you'll dance along with em, feeling it steal your soul
we'll stomp our paws, flap our wings
maybe wanna do wonderful crazy things! (yea thats it!)

check ou those chat chat chatterin monkeys
swingin through the banyan trees
two by 2 two to the jungle rhythm
sounds like a one cat play in the distance
singing through the harmonies
woo woo to the jungle rhythm

now you can high tail it outta the jungle
but it never leaves your heart
first you feel that beat start bubblin under then hear the tom toms loudest thunder
It's movin me!
sounds alot like bein free
when i feeel, feel the jungle rhythm
feel the jungle rhythm
feel the jungle rhythm
feel the jungle rhythm
feel the jungle rhythm
feel the jungle rhythm

The Wizard & I

Did that really just happen?
Have I actually understood?
This weird quirk I've tried to suppress or hide
Is a talent that could Help me meet the Wizard
If I make good
So I'll make good...

When I meet the Wizard
Once I prove my worth
When I meet the Wizard
What I've waited for since...since birth!
And with all his Wizard wisdom
By my looks, he won't be blinded
Do you think the Wizard is... dumb?
Or like Munchkins, so small-minded?
No! He'll say to me:
"I see who you truly are
A girl on whom I can rely!"
And that's how we'll begin
The Wizard and I...

Once I'm with the Wizard
My whole life will change
'Cuz once you're with the Wizard
No one thinks you're strange
No father is not proud of you
No sister acts ashamed
And all of Oz has to love you
When by the Wizard, you're acclaimed
And this gift- or this curse-
I have inside
Maybe at last, I'll know why
When we are hand in hand-
The Wizard and I

And one day, he'll say to me: "Elphaba,
A girl who is so superior
Shouldn't a girl who's so good inside
Have a matching exterior?
And since folks here to an absurd degree
Seem fixated on your verdigris
Would it be all right by you
If I de-greenify you?"

And though of course
That's not important to me
"All right, why not?" I'll reply
Oh, what a pair we'll be
The Wizard and I...
Yes, what a pair we'll be
The Wizard and...

Unlimited
My future is unlimited
And I've just had a vision
Almost like a prophecy
I know- it sounds truly crazy
And true, the vision's hazy
But I swear, someday there'll be
A celebration throughout Oz
That's all to do with me!

And I'll stand there with the Wizard
Feeling things I've never felt
And though I'd never show it
I'll be so happy, I could melt
And so it will be
For the rest of my life
And I'll want nothing else 'til I die
Held in such high esteem
When people see me, they will scream
For half of Oz's fav'rite team:
The Wizard and I!

Out here on my Own

Sometimes I wonder
Where I've been
Who I am, do I fit in?
Make-believing is hard alone
Out here, on my own

We're always proving
Who we are
Always reaching
For that rising star
To guide me far
And shine me home
Out here on my own

When I'm down and feeling blue
I close my eyes so I can be with you
Oh, baby, be strong for me
Baby, belong to me
Help me through
Help me need you

Until the morning sun appears
Making light of all my fears
I dry the tears I've never shown
out here on my own

But when I'm down and feeling blue
I close my eyes so I can be with you
Oh, baby, be strong for me
Baby, belong to me
Help me through
Help me need you

Sometimes I wonder
Where I've been
Who I am, do I fit in?
I may not win
But I can't be thrown
Out here on my own
On my own

Wouldn’t it be Lovely

All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air.
With one enormous chair,
Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

Lots of choc'lates for me to eat,
Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat.
Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet,
Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

Aow, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still.
I would never budge 'till spring
Crept over me windowsill.

Someone's 'ead restin' on my knee,
Warm and tender as 'e can be.

Who takes good care of me,
Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow-

Way up high
there’s a land that I heard of

Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow-

Skies are blue
and the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
away above the chimney tops
that's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
skies are blue
and the dreams that you dare to dream
really do come true

If happy little bluebirds fly
above the rainbow,

Why oh why can't I?

POPULAR

Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I,
And let's face it, who isn't less fortunate than I?
My tender heart tends to start to bleed.
And when someone needs a makeover,
I simply have to take over!
I know, I know exactly what they need!

And even in your case,
Though it's the toughest case I've yet to face,
Don't worry, I'm determined to succeed!
Follow my lead,
And yes indeed, you will be...

POPULAR! You're gonna be popular!
I'll teach you the proper poise,
When you talk to boys,
Little ways to flirt and flounce, ooh!
I'll show you what shoes to wear!
How to fix your hair!
Everthing that really counts to be...

POPULAR! I'll help you be popular!
You'll hang with the right cohorts,
You'll be good at sports,
Know the slang you've got to know.
So let's start, ‘cause you've got an awfully long way to go!

When I see depressing creatures,
With unprepossessing features,
I remind them on their own they have
To - think - of Celebrated heads of state,
Or specially great communicators!
Did they have brains or knowledge?
Don't make me laugh!

They were POPULAR!
Please! It's all about popular.
It's not about aptitude,
It's the way you're viewed,
So it's very shrewd to be,
Very very popular like ME!

And though you protest Your disinterest,
I know clandestinely, you're gonna grin and bear it!
Your new found popularity!

La la, la la! You'll be popular!
Just not quite as popular as ME!

Who Will Buy

Who will buy
This wonderful morning?
Such a sky
You never did see!
Who will tie
It up with a ribbon
And put it in a box for me?

So I could see it at my leisure
Whenever things go wrong
And I would keep it as a treasure
To last my whole life long.

Who will buy
This wonderful feeling?
I'm so high
I swear I could fly.

Me, oh my!
I don't want to lose it
So what am I to do
To keep the sky so blue?
There must be someone who will buy...

Who will buy
This wonderful morning?
Such a sky
You never did see!
Who will tie
It up with a ribbon
And put it in a box for me?

There'll never be a day so sunny,
It could not happen twice.
Where is the man with all the money?
It's cheap at half the price!

Who will buy
Who will buy
This wonderful feeling?
I'm so high
I swear I could fly.
Me, oh my!
I don't want to lose it

So what am I to do
To keep the sky so blue?
There must be someone who will buy...

Good Morning Baltimore

OH, OH, OH WOKE UP TODAY
FEELING THE WAY I ALWAYS DO
OH, OH, OH HUNGRY FOR SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T EAT
THEN I HEAR THAT BEAT

THE RHYTHM OF TOWN
STARTS CALLING ME DOWN
IT'S LIKE A MESSAGE FROM HIGH ABOVE
OH, OH, OH PULLING ME OUT
TO THE SMILES AND THE STREETS THAT I LOVE

GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE
EVERY DAY'S LIKE AN OPEN DOOR
EVERY NIGHT IS A FANTASY
EVERY SOUND'S LIKE A SYMPHONY

GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE
AND SOME DAY WHEN I TAKE TO THE FLOOR
THE WORLD'S GONNA WAKE UP AND SEE
BALTIMORE AND ME

SO, OH, OH
GIVE ME A CHANCE
'CAUSE WHEN I START TO DANCE I'M A MOVIE STAR
OH, OH, OH
SOMETHING INSIDE OF ME MAKES ME MOVE
WHEN I HEAR THE GROOVE

MY MA TELLS ME NO
BUT MY FEET TELL ME GO!
IT'S LIKE A DRUMMER INSIDE MY HEART

SO, OH, OH
DON'T MAKE ME WAIT
ONE MORE MOMENT FOR MY LIFE TO START...

I LOVE YOU BALTIMORE
EVERY DAY'S LIKE AN OPEN DOOR
EVERY NIGHT IS A FANTASY
EVERY SOUND'S LIKE A SYMPHONY

AND I PROMISE BALTIMORE
THAT SOME DAY WHEN
I TAKE TO THE FLOOR
THE WORLD'S GONNA WAKE UP AND SEE
GONNA WAKE UP AND SEE

BALTIMORE AND ME...

BALTIMORE AND ME!!

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

The ABC (by Spike Milligan)

'Twas midnight in the schoolroom
And every desk was shut
When suddenly from the alphabet
Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!"

Said A to B, "I don't like C;
His manners are a lack.
For all I ever see of C
Is a semi-circular back!"

"I disagree," said D to B,
"I've never found C so.
From where I stand he seems to be
An uncompleted O."

C was vexed, "I'm much perplexed,
You criticise my shape.
I'm made like that, to help spell Cat

And Cow and Cool and Cape."

"He's right" said E; said F, "Whoopee!"
Said G, "'Ip, 'Ip, 'ooray!"
"You're dropping me," roared H to G.
"Don't do it please I pray."

"Out of my way," LL said to K.
"I'll make poor I look ILL."
To stop this stunt J stood in front,
And presto! ILL was JILL.

"U know," said V, "that W
Is twice the age of me.
For as a Roman V is five
I'm half as young as he."

X and Y yawned sleepily,
"Look at the time!" they said.
"Let's all get off to beddy byes."
They did, then "Z-z-z."

The LAMPLIGHTER by Robert Louis Stevenson

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do,
O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!

CLOTHES by Elizabeth Jennings

My mother keeps telling me
When she was in her teens
She wore quite different clothes from mine
And hadn't heard of jeans,

T-shirts, no hats, and dresses that
Reach far above our knees.
I laughed at first and then I thought
One day my kids will tease

And scoff at what I'm wearing now.
What will their fashions be?
I'd give an awful lot to know,
To look ahead and see.

Girls dressed like girls perharps once more
And boys no longer half
Resembling us. Oh, what's in store
To make our children laugh?

LULU by Charles Causley

What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?
There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll
And by its side a shoe.

Why is her window wide, mother,
The curtain flapping free,
And only a circle on the dusty shelf
Where her money-box used to be?

Why do you turn your head, mother,
And why do tear drops fall?
And why do you crumple that note on the fire
And say it is nothing at all?

I woke to voices late last night,
I heard an engine roar.
Why do you tell me the things I heard
Were a dream and nothing more?

I heard somebody cry, mother,
In anger or in pain,
But now I ask you why, mother,
You say it was a gust of rain.

Why do you wander about as though
You don't know what to do?
What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?

Grade 3 Project - handwritten or typed

Details of the Life & Times of Poet

Draw a floor plan of an ideal theatre; describe in detail the purpose of each area, the equipment found within that area and its function.

(ie Stage/Orchestra Pit/Backstage Wings/Scene Dock/Dressing Rooms/Paint Store etc/Auditorium/Front-of-House/Foyer/Box Office)

Choose a character from a play or a musical and explain how you would dress the character including make up, for a performance on the stage.

(Good to choose an extreme character, like Richard III, or Elphaba from Wicked, or The Phantom from The Phantom of the Opera - then you can describe how your think their costume and make up should be.)

Bibliography, indicating books and other source materials you have used to compile your project. (ie a list of any books you have read, website used etc.)

THIS MUST BE HANDED IN TO YOUR TEACHER ONE MONTH BEFORE EXAM

The Life & Times of Spike Milligan (see also the link by your poem)

Born April 1918, died February 2002

Father: Captain L A Milligan Mother: Florence Winifred

He appeared in many plays and the BBC Goon Show

He won the TV writer of the year award in 1956

He also appeared in many films including:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Yellowbeard

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Digby The Biggest Dog in the World

The Life & Times of Elizabeth Jennings (see also the link by your poem)

Born 18th July 1926

Father: Dr H C Jennings

Educated: Oxford Library

Reader for Chatto & Windus Ltd 1958-60

Publications:

A Way of Looking (1955)

A Sense of the World (1958)

The Batsford Book of Children's Verse (1958)

Songs of a Birth of Death (1961)

Let's Have Some Poetry (1960)

The Mind Has Mountains (1966)

The Secret Brother (1966)

Collected Poems (1967)

The Animals Arrival (1969)

Selected Poems (1980)

The Batsford Book of English Verse (1981)

and many more

Robert Louis Stevenson (see also the link by your poem)

Born 1850 at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh. Father Thomas Stevenson and Mother Margaret Balfour

He entered Edinburgh University in 1867

Married Frances in 1880, two children: Isobel Osborne and Samuel Lloyd Osborne

Was Christened Robert Lewis Stevenson, Lewis was changed to Louis when he was 18.

He had a Nurse called Alison Cunningham and it was to her that he wrote the once famous dedication "A Child's Garden of Verses".

In May 1880 he married an American girl called Frances and had two step children - Isobelle Osborne referred to as Belle, and Samuel Lloyd Osborne.

He died 3rd December 1894, cerebral haemorrhage

HIS BOOKS

Thrawn Jenet

Treasure Island (His first really popular book written in a cottage in Braemar)

The Body Snatchers

The Merry Men

Kidnapped

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (written in 1886 & translated into many languages)

Master of Ballantree

The Ebb Tide

How to Arrange a Trial

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