Oom-Pah-Pah 1960 'Oliver'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 10 Dec 2003

[The curtain rises:]
[The customers sing roughly and freely
over a general hubbub:]

Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
They all suppose what they want to suppose.
when they hear Oompahpah!

[The Chairman hammers on the table:]

[Chairman spoken:] Ladies and Gentlemen,
brethren and sinners all.
I call upon our goddess of the virtues
to give us her wellknown rendition
of the old School Song
OomPahPah!

[The customers encourage
Nancy noisily:]

[Nancy spoken tipsily:] All right!
All right!

[Nancy sings:] There's a little ditty
They're singing in the city
espeshly when they've been on the gin
or the beer.
If you've got the patience,
your own imaginations,
will tell you just exactly
what you want to hear.

[All:] Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
[Nancy:] They all suppose
what they want to suppose.
when they hear Oompahpah!

Mister Percy Snodgrass would
often have the odd glass
but never when he thought
anybody could see.
Secretly he'd buy it,
and drink it on the quiet,
and dream he was an earl
with a girl on each knee!

[All:] Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
[Nancy:] What is the cause
of his red shiny nose?
Can it be Oompahpah?

Pretty little Sally
goes walking down the alley,
displays her pretty ankles
to all of the men.
They could see her garters
but not for free and gratis.
An inch or two,
and then she knows
when to say "when!"

[All:] Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
[Nancy:] Whether it's hidden,
or whether it shows
it's the same Oompahpah!

She was from the country,
but now she's up a gumtree,
she let a feller feed 'er,
then lead 'er along,
What's a good o' cryin'?
She's made a bed to lie in
She's glad to bring the coin in
and join in this song.

[All:] Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
[Nancy:] She is no longer
the same blushing rose.
Ever since OoomPahPah!

[Nancy spoken:] All together now!

[All:] There's a little ditty
They're singing in the city
espeshly when they've been on the gin
or the beer.
If you've got the patience,
your own imaginations,
will tell you just exactly
what you want to hear.

[All:] Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
That's how it goes
Oompahpah! Oompahpah!
Ev'ry one knows.
[Nancy:] They all suppose
what they want to suppose.
when they hear Oompahpah!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Oom-Pah-Pah 1960 Oliver
by Lionel Bart
copyright 1960 by Lakeview Music Pub.Co.Ltd.
sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 09 December 2003 at 21.02
in association with Doug Grierson
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