Not long after graduating from the Royal College of Music, Britten started composing his collection of mostly unison songs (the last song, "Old Abram Brown", being in canon) to texts he selected from Walter de la Mare's anthology Come Hither. Britten noted in his diary on 2 November 1933 (just over a month before his twentieth birthday) that he had composed that afternoon "a song, for R.H.M.B. & Clive House, very light & bad – 'I mun be married a Sunday'". "Ee-Oh!" followed on 19 December.

Date of composition 1935 (2 November 1933 - 2 August 1935)
Premiered 1937, October 26th in London, United Kingdom
Dedicated to 'To R.H.M. Britten and the boys of Clive House, Prestatyn, 1934'
Type Song(s)
Catalogue BTC 780
Instruments Voice - Solo voices ;
Piano
Autotranslations beta Benjamin Britten: Friday Afternoons, BTC 780
Benjamin Britten: Friday Afternoons, BTC 780
Benjamin Britten: Friday Afternoons, BTC 780