1990
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
Composed by 
Richard Pearson Thomas
Richard Pearson Thomas Text by 
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems Song Collection
"O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy" is the first song of Richard Pearson Thomas' song cycle Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Poems by Walt Whitman.
Text
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
by Walt Whitman
O tan-faced prairie-boy,
Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
You came, taciturn, with nothing to give – we but look’d on each other,
When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
Sheet Music
Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems
Richard Pearson Thomas
Baritone