Quiller Has the Brain 1900 'Foxy Quiller'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 16 May 2005

The Grecian Alexander,
was an eminent commander,
and Cicero was famous as a speaker;
while others of antiquity,
were noted for iniquity, but all,
when they're compared to me grow weaker.
Old Christopher Columbus,
as a sailor raised a rumpus
and Nelson as a fighter
was a thriller.
But heroes of the nation
get a shopworn reputation
when brought into comparison with Quiller.

For Quiller has the brain
and Quiller has the arm,
a frown that is a terror,
but a smile that has a charm,
to turn the coyest damsel
to a cooer and a biller.
Don Juan was an amateur
compared to Foxy Quiller.

For Quiller has the brain
and Quiller has the arm,
a frown that is a terror,
but a smile that has a charm,
to turn the coyest damsel
to a cooer and a biller.
Don Juan was an amateur
compared to Foxy Quiller.

You talk about your Plato,
and your Socrates and Cato,
but I must say without intending rudeness,
their talk was merely driveling;
their wisdom only frivelling
compared to my extraordinairy shrewdness.
Napoleon and Nero,
were a cipher and a zero,
and Bacon wasn't wiser than a miller.
All other names diminish
to a microscopic finish
when brought into proximity with Quiller.

For Quiller has the brain
and Quiller has the arm,
a frown that is a terror,
but a smile that has a charm,
to turn the coyest damsel
to a cooer and a biller.
Don Juan was an amateur compared to Foxy Quiller.

For Quiller has the brain
and Quiller has the arm,
a frown that is a terror,
but a smile that has a charm,
The rest of the detectives
when they gaze on him grow iller;

a lot of children they, not men,
they're just a kind of Kindergarten
when compared to Foxy Quiller,
Foxy Quiller.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Quiller Has the Brain 1900
Libretto by Harry B. Smith
Music by Reginald de Koven
As Performed by The Klaw & Erlanger Opera Co.
"Foxy Quiller" - A Comic Opera in Three Acts.
© 1900 by Edward Schuberth & Co., 23 Union Square, N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 16 May 2005 at 09.48
in association with Doug Grierson
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