Girl Graduates - 19th Century - Gilbert and Sullivan

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 12 Sept 2001

They intend to send a wire
to the moon, to the moon;
and they'll set the Thames on fire
very soon, very soon,
then they learn to make silk purses
with their rigs, with their rigs
from the ears of Lady Circe's
Piggywigs, Piggywigs.
And weazels at their slumbers
they'll trepan, they'll trepan;
to get sunbeams from cucumbers,
they've a plan, they've a plan.
They've a firmly rooted notion
they can cross The Polar Ocean,
and they'll find Perpetual Motion
if they can, if they can.

These are the phenomena
that ev'ry pretty domina
is hoping at her Universitee
we shall see.
These are the phenomena
that ev'ry pretty domina
is hoping at her Universitee
we shall see.

As for fashion, they foreswear it,
so they say, so they say,
and the circle, they will square it
some fine day, some fine day;
then the little pigs they're teaching
for to fly, for to fly;
and the niggers they'll be bleaching
bye and bye, bye and bye!
Each newly joined aspirant
to the clan, to the clan,
must repudiate the tyrant
known as Man, known as Man;
they mock at him and flout him,
for they do not care about him,
and they're 'going to do without him'
if they can, if they can!

These are the phenomena
that ev'ry pretty domina
is hoping at her Universitee
we shall see.
These are the phenomena
that ev'ry pretty domina
is hoping at her Universitee
we shall see!

In this college useful knowledge
ev'rywhere one finds,
and already growing steady,
we've enlarged our minds,
we've enlarged our minds.

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Girl Graduates 19C  Gilbert-Sullivan

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Girl Graduates 19C  Gilbert-Sullivan
Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
words by Sir W. S. Gilbert
by kind permission of the Late Sir W. S. Gilbert
sequenced for Piano by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 12 Sept 2001 at 22.43
in association with Doug Grierson
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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