Girlie-Land 1911 'The Duchess'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 16 jan 2004

Seeking knowledge I have travelled;
knotty problems I've unravelled,
from the land of the equator,
to the chilly frigid zone,
I have heard the monkeys chatter
on an economic matter,
in a manner academic,
quite peculiarly their own.
Saw the walrus and the grampus,
using icefloes as a campus,
they debated in a manner oratorically grand,
saying female relegation
would result in a stagnation,
and ev'ry male would fold his tent,
and sail for GirlieLand.

Girlies young and girlies old,
girlies warm and girlies cold,
girlies gentle, girlies gruff,
I could never meet enough,
girlies crowned with golden hair,
girlies with a baby stare,
girlies, girlies ev'ry brand,
let me live in GirlieLand!

Girlies young and girlies old,
girlies warm and girlies cold,
girlies gentle, girlies gruff,
I could never meet enough,
girlies crowned with golden hair,
girlies with a baby stare,
girlies, girlies ev'ry brand,
let me live in GirlieLand!

In the fastness of the jungle,
where the timid binglebungle,
snorts a song of heart's devotion,
to the downy porcupine,
and the dainty armadillo
imitates the weeping willow
at the flamingo's refusal,
when he whispered: "Oh be mine!"
All the joys of life were ridden
by the Katy did, who didn't,
when the chimpanzee unfolded
her his tale of passion grand,
still should fate the female banish,
all the masculines would vanish,
to seek the realms of bliss and kiss,
that's known as GirlieLand.

Girlies young and girlies old,
girlies warm and girlies cold,
girlies gentle, girlies gruff,
I could never meet enough,
girlies crowned with golden hair,
girlies with a baby stare,
girlies, girlies ev'ry brand,
let me live in GirlieLand!

Girlies young and girlies old,
girlies warm and girlies cold,
girlies gentle, girlies gruff,
I could never meet enough,
girlies crowned with golden hair,
girlies with a baby stare,
girlies, girlies ev'ry brand,
let me live in GirlieLand!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Girlie-Land 1911
Lyrics by Joseph Herbert
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMXI by M. Witmark & Sons.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 16 January 2004 at 16.22
in association with Doug Grierson
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Sam S. and Lee Shubert Inc. Present Fritzi Scheff
in the New Comic Opera - "Mlle. Rosita."
Book & Lyrics by Joseph Herbert & Harry B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
Harry B. Smith Victor Herbert Publication:
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1911.
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