09 ME Trio(Wilkins, Simpkins and Essex) 1902 'Merrie England'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 01 Apr 2003

[Simpkins:] When a man is a lover
he's bound to discover
a fact of which I'm an informant;
His nature will change,
or at least rearrange,
some points
which were formerly dormant.

[Wilkins:] Perhaps more or less
in the matter of dress
he was careless or shabbily shady.
But Love will change that;
he will buy a new hat
when he's fallen in love with a lady,
A lady, a lady!

[Essex:] For the love of a lady's
a curious fact,
on a slovenly person
it's certain to act.
If his coat is well brushed
and his boots are well blacked
you may know he's in love
with a lady.
[Wilkins:] you may know
he's in love with a lady,
[All:] You may know
he's in love
with a lady.

[Essex:] Tho' a small man by nature,
your love will inflate your
proud heart to a size which is grander;
you'll feel you might rank,
(tho' a clerk in a bank,)
with a hero as brave as Lysander!
You'll be bursting with pluck,
and will curse your ill luck
that, while peacefully tied to a desk,
you are longing to meet
a mad dog in the street,
with someone or other to rescue,
to rescue, to rescue!

[Wilkins:] Oh! the love of a lady
has such an effect upon me,
that I beg if you ever detect
a house that's on fire,
or a ship that is wrecked,
you'll allow me to fly to the rescue

[Essex:] You'll allow me
to fly to the rescue.
[All:] You'll allow him to fly
to the rescue.

[Simpkins:] Then to live in an attic,
(on this be emphatic,)
an attic some lodging house drab lets,
is far happier if you share it with her,
than a palace,
put that on your tablets!

[Wilkins:] For your thoughts at all times
you'll be breathing in rhymes,
(tho' your friends never thought you a poet.)
But if love blows its nose
it can't do it in prose,
it must have a poet to blow it!
To blow it!
[All:] It must have a poet to blow it!
[Spoken:] blow it, blow it!
[Sung:] So the love of a lady's
a curious thing;
a poetical fancy
it's certain to bring.
And the present poetical song
which we sing
is expressly intended to show it.
Is expressly intended to show,
to show it!

[Dance:]

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
drum
bassoon
clarinet
piano t clef
oboe
pizz str
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09 ME Trio 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 Tuesday 01 April 2003 at 22.08
in association with Doug Grierson
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