The Wonderful Scholar 1871

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3Mar2025
2025

For three years I courted a charmer,
in hopes that one day she'd be mine;
her "Pa" was a well to do Farmer,
and she was an angel divine;
but one day there turned up a cousin
she'd not seen for a few years or so,
he'd quite enough jaw for a dozen;
I soon wished him beyond Jericho.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

He was awfully fond of quotation,
in Latin his learning to show;
he soon found out by examination,
the deuce of a word did I know;
I didn't so much mind his Latin
tho' it made me look somewhat a fool,
but he paid such attention to Clara,
that I thought him remarkably cool,

With his Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

I had longed to propose to dear Clara,
how to do it? I felt quite a dunce;
so one day, lest another shoud share her,
I thought I'd best do it at once;
I fell on my knees in a flutter,
ahe blushed like a rose in full bloom;
but just as the first words I did utter,
why who should walk into the room.

But that confounded Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

To see her I called some days after,
(this time to propose I'd contrive;)
When her jolly old dad, with much laughter,
said they both had gone out for a drive;
Such treatment, I couldn't help scorning,
it made me feel queer 'bout the head
in the papers I read the next morning
that the one I thought mine had got wed!

to that beastly interfering Sine
qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

They say that "delays they are dangerous"
and so I found out to my cost;
thro' this fellows confounded DogLatin,
I had three years of "Love's Labour Lost"
I not only lost a sweet charmer
But also to astonish my friends
I'm now learning Latin myself.
and I've got as far as

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Sine qua non e tu jorum,
and his Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
Likewise quantum suff: Cockolorum
such a wonderful scholar was he.

Tho' Clara for years kept me hoping,
then left me at last in despair;
for my loss I don't mean to be moping,
I may chance meet with one just as fair;
Is there one darling here who would have me,
to let me live single's a shame;
I hear that my rival's a father,
in time perhaps I might be the same.

And if I was I should like the little darlings to be named as follows:

the first: Sine qua non e tu jorum,
the second: Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
the third: quantum suff: Cockolorum
and all wonderful scholars they'll be.

the first: Sine qua non e tu jorum,
the second: Pro bono Pons Asinorum.
the third: quantum suff: Cockolorum
and all wonderful scholars they'll be.

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The Wonderful Scholar 1871
Lyircs & Music by C.W.Hunt
© 1871 by H.D'Alcorn   Oxford Street, London
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 3 March 2025 at 15.17
in association with Torquil Syme
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James Pitt-Payne