04 ME Song(Wilkins) with Chorus and Dance 1902 'Merrie England'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 29 Mar 2003

[Wilkins:] I do counsel
that your playtime
be a jocund and a gay time,
and your player be as merry
as he can!
If a play be glum and gloomy,
very tragical and tomby,
I do act upon a very proper plan,
As a patriotic Briton
I have ponder'd on and written
A jolly sailor song
about the sea,
with a hornpipe,
(tho' perchance one be incongruous,)
I dance one,
Whatever kind of character I be.
Ah! And the time will come,
'Twill be seen by some,
tho' not perchance by me,
when a dance will act like magic,
while five acts that are tragic!
Well that's where
I and Shakespeare disagree.

[All:] And the time will come,
'twill be seen by some,
tho' not perchance by me,
when a dance will act like magic
While five acts that are tragic,
Well, that's where...
Well that's where
he and Shakespeare disagree.

[Wilkins:] There's no character;
but marry! 'Tis convenient to carry
At any time the burden of a song!
One word will introduce it,
and the public will excuse it,
and Odbodikins! Applaud it
loud and long;
Now in Hamlet's big soliloquoy
he mentioneth the billow,
dost remember in
"To be or not to be,"
Come the words
"a sea of trouble?"
The applause, I trow, would double
if he forthwith sang a song
about the sea! Ah!
And the time will come,
'twill be seen by some,
tho' not perchance by me,
when a lively Prince of Denmark
will sing that song;
and then mark
How entirely
I and Shakespeare disagree.

[All:] And the time will come,
'twill be seen by some,
tho' not perchance by me,
when a lively Prince of Denmark
will sing that song;
and then mark.
how entirely...
how entirely he and Shakespeare disagree.

[All:] A......h! Heave ho! Heave ho!
A......h! Heave ho! Heave ho!
Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho!
Heave ho!

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
bassoon
piano t clef
pizz str
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04 ME Song 1902
Music by Sir Edward German
Lyrics by Capt. Basil Hood
copyright MCMII by Chappell and Co.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Saturday 29 March 2003 at 08.33
in association with Doug Grierson
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