Chorus of Footmen 1905 "Mlle Modiste"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Aug 2007
2007

Six of us to serve one gouty master!
If we anger him we court disaster!
Let him swear!
We don't care!
We don't care!

Oh! A footman's lot is not quite a hateful one,
if once, you should stop to think!
And it can't be called at all an ungrateful one
with all you can eat and drink.
For there is one thing certain as can be,
that there are none who live as well as we.
At meals we're never known to shirk work
Beware, take care!

We serve what we do not use!
We hear all the fam'ly news.
And there is one thing certain as can be,
that there are none who live as well as we.
Take care! who's there! Take care!

You can eat and drink!
pst! pst!
Pst! pst! pst!
pst! pst! pst!

[they lift their glasses]

[they drink:]

a la votre

[They stand to attention]

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Chorus of Footmen 1905
from "Mlle Modiste"
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
© MCMV by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 19 August 2007 at 9.54am
in association with Doug Grierson
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