2005
The Factory Window Song
Composed by 
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie Text by 
Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay Here and Gone Song Collection
"The Factory Window Song" is the fourth song from Jake Heggie's song cycle Here and Gone. The original text was written by Vachel Lindsay, an American poet known for the development of the jazz poetry genre. The song cycle is written for tenor and baritone with small chamber ensemble.
Text
The Factory Window Song
by Vachel Lindsay
Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody’s always throwing bricks,
Somebody’s always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
Factory windows are always broken.
Other windows are let alone.
No one throws through the chapel-window
The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
Factory windows are always broken.
Something or other is going wrong.
Something is rotten — I think, in Denmark.
End of the factory-window song.
Records
2010
Passing By
Raymond Carver, Jake Heggie, A. E. Housman, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sheet Music
Here and Gone
Heggie, Jake
The Farms of Home, In Praise of Songs that Die, Stars, The Factory Window Song, In the Morning, Because I Liked You Better, The Half-Moon Westers Low
Tenor and Baritone