Blanks - 17 - The Toreador - 1901

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 17 Oct 2001

[Gus] Oh, memory's a funny thing indeed,
it's very often feeble and uncertain;
[Archie] When incidents occur
over which you would prefer
in the future, so to speak,
to draw a curtain.
[Gigg] If creditors
for settlement should press,
One needn't stop to listen to their chatter!
Just tell them you regret
that you can't recall their debt,
for your mind is quite a blank
upon the matter.
[Gus] It's blank,
[Archie] blank,
[Gigg] Absolutely blank!
[All] Look them in the face
with an expression that is frank.
It's convenient to find, on occasions,
that your mind
[Gus] Is blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[All] Absolutely blank!

[Gigg] Suppose I live in town,
and one fine day
I hail a hansom cabby outside my gate;
[Gus] And then request the man,
just as quickly as he can, say,
to drive you all the way
from there to Highgate.
[Archie] He does his best
your orders to obey,
he knows the journey's worth a lot of money;
[Gigg] But when he puts me down,
and I hand him halfacrown,
the expression on his face is rather funny.
[Gus] It's blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[Gigg] Absolutely Blank!

[All] Cabby's very sorry
that you called him off the rank;
Oh, he makes a lot of noise,
and the language he employs
[Gus] Is blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[All] Absolutely blank!

[Gus] In racing,
or in betting on a horse,
you may not take the interest
that heaps take,
[Archie] But, all the same
you may be prevail'd upon one day
just to enter
for a harmless little sweepstake;
[Gigg] You hope to draw
the favourite, of course,
You're told there's really nothing
that can lick it;
[Archie] But when the draw
takes place on the day before the race,
you are shocked to find
on looking at your ticket,
[Gus] It's blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[Gigg] Absolutely blank.
[All] Still, you feel
you've only got
your wretched luck to thank.
There are prizes, one or two,
but the number drawn by you,
[Gus] Is blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[All] Absolutely blank!

[Archie] Perhaps you're one of those
who long to show the Drama
is in need of much improvement;
[Gus] Of a theatre, then may be,
you become the sole lessee,
and resolve to be the leader
of the movement.
[Gigg] You wouldn't stage a comedy,
Oh, no! Or even melodrama that's excitin';
[Archie] The play that you rehearse
is a tragedy in verse,
well, you know the sort of verse
some poets write in.
[Gus] It's blank,
[Archie] Blank,
[Gigg] Absolutely blank.
[All] Certainly it won't improve
your balance at the bank.
When the piece has run a bit,
stalls and gallery and pit
[Gus] Are blank
[Archie] Blank,
[All] Absolutely blank!

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Blanks 17 The Toreador 1901

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Blanks 17 The Toreador 1901
Music by Lionel Monckton
Words by Percy Greenbank
sequenced for 'The Gaity'
Editor - Roderick Murray
by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - assoc. Doug Grierson
on Wednesday 17 Oct 2001 at 19.13
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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