Gilbert and Sullivan

Just humming???

It's how I learned to READ! My grandfather ran away from his home in England in the late 1800's, and came to America. Many years later (obviously, I hope!), I was a four-year-old sitting on my beloved Papa's lap watching as his fingers underlined the words to the entire scores of Pirates, and Iolanthe, and Pinafore and so many others as they played on our old record player. By the time I was seven, I was trying to organize the kids in the neighborhood into a production of Iolanthe!

Didn't work....

I can still do the patter song from Iolanthe by heart -- you know, the "Nightmare song". Also "Modern Major General" from Pirates and "John Wellington Wells" from Sorcerer.

You got me sitting here singing my father's favorite from Pirates:

Poor, wand'ring one,
Though thou hast surely strayed,
Take heart of grace
Thy steps retrace!
Poor wand'ring one..."

Just humming? Not on your life!

 

P.S. It's Three Little Maids from School, not Seoul!

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/html/three_maids.html

 

When a felon's not engaged in his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's . . .

Love G & S!

 

Original lyrics by W.S. Gilbert:

When a felon's not engaged in his employment (his employment)
Or maturing his felonious little plans (little plans)
His capacity for innocent enjoyment ('cent enjoyment)
Is just as great as any honest man's (honest man's)

Our feelings we with difficulty smother ('culty smother)
When constabulary duty's to be done (to be done)
Take one consideration with another (with another)
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Ah!
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling (not a-burgling)
When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime ('pied in crime)
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling (brook a-gurgling)
And listen to the merry villiage chime (villiage chime)

When the 'coster's finished jumping on his mother (on his mother)
He loves to lie a-basking in the sun (in the sun)
Take one consideration with another (with another)
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Ah!
When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.




Now have fun Dr. Bob! LOL

Sherrie

 

Drat! I think I left my G & S CD case at home!!! *pout*

 

SONG--FREDERIC
FREDERIC:

Oh, is there not one maiden breast
Which does not feel the moral beauty
Of making worldly interest
Subordinate to sense of duty?

Who would not give up willingly
All matrimonial ambition,
To rescue such a one as I
From his unfortunate position?
From his position,
To rescue such an one as I
From his unfortunate position?

GIRLS:
Alas! there's not one maiden breast
Which seems to feel the moral beauty
Of making worldly interest
Subordinate to sense of duty!

FREDERIC:
Oh, is there not one maiden here
Whose homely face and bad complexion
Have caused all hope to disappear
Of ever winning man's affection?
Of such a one, if such there be,
I swear by Heaven's arch above you,
If you will cast your eyes on me,
However plain you be, I'll love you,
However plain you be,
If you will cast your eyes on me,
However plain you be I'll love you,
I'll love you, I'll love, I'll love you!

GIRLS:
Alas! there's not one maiden here
Whose homely face and bad complexion
Have caused all hope to disappear
Of ever winning man's affection!

FREDERIC:
(in despair) Not one?
GIRLS:
No, no -- not one!
FREDERIC:
Not one?
GIRLS:
No, no!
MABEL:
(enters through arch) Yes, one!
Yes, one!
GIRLS:
'Tis Mabel!
MABEL:
Yes, 'tis Mabel!

RECIT--MABEL
MABEL:

Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name,
For shame!
It's true that he has gone astray,
But pray
Is that a reason good and true
Why you
Should all be deaf to pity's name?

GIRLS:
(aside): The question is, had he not been
A thing of beauty,
Would she be swayed by quite as keen
A sense of duty?

MABEL:
For shame, for shame, for shame!


LOL..for you Dr. Bob!

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/p07.mid

Sherrie

 

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/parody/when_a_felons_not.htm

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/midi/html/midi_home.html

Here is 2.

Sherrie

 

Poor, wand'ring one,
Though thou hast surely strayed,
Take heart of grace
Thy steps retrace!
Poor wand'ring one...

 

There's a difference??

Anyone here familiar with the Xena-cum-G&S parody, "Heroine Barbarian"? Kelly, if you aren't, you should be.

Haruo
freshly back from his minihoneymoon

 

the Xena-cum-G&S parody, "Heroine Barbarian" (click) — I forgot the link.

Haruo