I'm Nobody

"I'm Nobody" is the second song of Lori Laitman's song cycle Four Dickinson Songs.

Date: 1996Composer: Lori LaitmanText: Emily DickinsonSong Collection: Four Dickinson Songs

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I’m Nobody! Who are you? (poem 288)
by Emily Dickinson

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us–don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Sheet Music

Four Dickinson Songs (High Key)

Composer(s): Lori Laitman

Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...

Voice Type: High

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Four Dickinson Songs (Low key)

Composer(s): Lori Laitman

Song(s): 1. Will There Really Be a Morning?
2. I'm Nobody
3. She Died
4. If I...

Voice Type: Low

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