Bagdad 1912 'The Lady Of The Slipper'

James Pitt-Payne, LOndon UK - 11 Mar 2004

Bagdad is a town in Turkey,
on a camel tall and jerkey
you can journey there and see
just how great it used to be.
Minarets and temples gaudy,
rugs and carpets real and shoddy,
gay bazaars that make you say,
dreaming of a bygone day:

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
land of languorous delights,
Oh, those dancing girls entrancing
and oh, those pink Arabian nights.
[Spoken:] Ah!
Girlies gay in silken trousers,
Suffragettes? No? No?
But the woman of the harem
knew exactly how to wear them
in Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
land of languorous delights,
Oh, those dancing girls entrancing
and oh, those pink Arabian nights.
[Spoken:] Ah!
Girlies gay in silken trousers,
Suffragettes? No? No?
But the woman of the harem
knew exactly how to wear them
in Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Where La Belle Fatima's daughter,
was a headline "TurkeyTrotter"
Mecca bound, is Allah's care,
many Pilgrims tarried there.
Mystic shriners gone before us,
helped to swell that Pilgrim's chorus,
and they chanted, yes, they did.
"Allah's great, but oh you kid!"

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
in the balmy summer air,
Oh, those date trees,
simply great trees,
and oh, those sloeeyed damsels there.
[Spoken:] Ah!
Though they had no brilliant Broadway,
if you had the dough
you could have a celebration
greater than a coronation
in Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
in the balmy summer air,
Oh, those date trees,
simply great trees,
and oh, those sloeeyed damsels there.
[Spoken:] Ah!
Though they had no brilliant Broadway,
if you had the dough
you could have a celebration
greater than a coronation
in Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Hold up coppers, pistol toters,
taxi cheaters, female voters,
in old Bagdad were taboo,
bread and butter charges too.
To increase the population,
was the fav'rite recreation,
Allah smiled on all such things,
Allah always pulls the strings.

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
city fair of mystic spells,
Oh, those olden temples golden,
and oh, those spicy garlic smells,
[Spoken:] Ah!
There they had no alimony,
No divorce? No! No!
When your wife turned out a "fliver"
you'd just toss her in the river;
In Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Life was fair and fine in Bagdad,
city fair of mystic spells,
Oh, those olden temples golden,
and oh, those spicy garlic smells,
[Spoken:] Ah!
There they had no alimony,
No divorce? No! No!
When your wife turned out a "fliver"
you'd just toss her in the river;
In Oriental Bagdad, long ago.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Bagdad 1912
Lyrics by James O'Dea
Music by Victor Herbert
© MCMXII by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 11 March 2004 at 20.34
in association with Doug Grierson
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Charles Dillingham Presents Montgomery and Stone and Elsie Janis
in a New Musical Comedy - "The Lady of the Slipper"
Book by Ann Caldwell and Laurence McCarty. Lyrics by James O'Dea.
Music by Victor Herbert.
Laurence McCarty - James O'Dea - Victor Herbert Publication
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1912.
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