Come Where Nature Calls! 1919

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7 Nov 2009
2009

[Mrs. Rockett:] I think of New York
with a sigh and a frown,
for it's full of wordly snares;
[Bruce:] Which you try to duck,
but you don't have luck
and they sneak on you unawares:
[Hilda:] I've read of their crimes
in the papers sometimes
and there's always something new.
[Pop:] The women's frocks
give people shocks
at least, I'm told they do

[All:] So come where Nature calls!
Oh, come where nature calls,
with all its sheeps
and Lover's Leaps
and water falls;
Oh, get a spade and hoe
and let your whiskers grow,
and get in case it's wet
a suit of overalls.
The guinea hen will coo
its morning hymn to you
as sweetly as the bands
that jazz in guilded halls:
And see! beyond the gates
The poison ivy waits!
So come, come,
come to where Nature calls!
So come, come,
come to where Nature calls!

So come where Nature calls!
Oh, come where nature calls,
with all its sheeps
and Lover's Leaps
and water falls;
Oh, get a spade and hoe
and let your whiskers grow,
and get in case it's wet
a suit of overalls.
Observe the gentle slug
the mild potato bug
their life is tame,
but all the same
it never palls:
They rise at five a.m.
Oh, let us be like them
and list, list,
listen when Nature calls!
And list, list,
listen when Nature calls!

[Mrs. Rockett:] What wonderful
moral examples we find
in the beasts of ev'ry land:
[Bruce:] Yes, I've known our cow
for a long time now,
and her morals are simply grand!
[Hilda:] No rooster I've met
ever gambled or bet
Or went too late to bed.
[Pop:] And no one ever saw a pig
that had a morning head.

[All:] So come where Nature calls!
Oh, come where nature calls,
with all its sheeps
and Lover's Leaps
and water falls;
Oh, get a spade and hoe
and let your whiskers grow,
and get in case it's wet
a suit of overalls.
The guinea hen will coo
its morning hymn to you
as sweetly as the bands
that jazz in guilded halls:
And see! beyond the gates
The poison ivy waits!
So come, come,
come to where Nature calls!
So come, come,
come to where Nature calls!

So come where Nature calls!
Oh, come where nature calls,
with all its sheeps
and Lover's Leaps
and water falls;
Oh, get a spade and hoe
and let your whiskers grow,
and get in case it's wet
a suit of overalls.
Observe the gentle slug
the mild potato bug
their life is tame,
but all the same
it never palls:
They rise at five a.m.
Oh, let us be like them
and list, list,
listen when Nature calls!
And list, list,
listen when Nature calls!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Come Where Nature Calls! 1919
Quartet
Music by Louis Hirsch
Lyrics by P.G.Wodehouse K.B.E.
© MCMXIX by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 7 November 2009 at 15.22
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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