2000
The Hired Girls
Composed by 
Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen Text by 
Willa Cather
Willa Cather My Ántonia Song Collection
"The Hired Girls" is the fourth movement of Libby Larsen's song cycle My Ántonia.
The audio recording of "The Hired Girls" from My Ántonia is made possible through a collaboration between the Hampsong Foundation and SongFest. The performers are Danya Katok, soprano, and Dimitri Dover, piano, and the performance took place at SongFest 2012 at the Colburn School.
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“The Hired Girls” (from “My Ántonia”)
Danya Katok (soprano) & Dimitri Dover (piano)1:34
Text
From My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
“Now, you’re Lena, are you?
–And you’re Tony and you’re Mary!
have I got it straight?”
(They were handsome girls, the hired girls
Lena and Tony)
Three Marys.. .
Four Danish girls.. .
And Lena and Tiny. . .
How they loved to dance!
(I thought)-if (not) for girls like (these) in the world
There would be no poetry.
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