Help -- funny lyrics to classical warhorses?
Dudley Brooks
Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
classical warhorses?
I'm most interested in lyrics that relate to the actual composition, such
as
This is
The symphony
That Schubert wrote but never finished.
or the famous (but dumb)
Beethoven's Fifth!
Beethoven's Fifth!
etc.
or the much better
Beethoven's Fourth!
Beethoven's Fourth!
(etc. many times)
Beethoven's Fourth!
Oops!
Fifth!
but total nonsense would also be welcome, such as the classic "Be Kind to
Your Webfooted Friends".
Also acceptable would be topical satire (i.e. on topics other than the
piece itself) and even pop songs set to classical classics. (Just today I
heard a Lebanese song about Beirut during the Civil War, set to the second
movement of the Rodrigo Guitar Concerto -- or possibly set to Miles
Davis's version of it!)
Other possible subcategories (and new threads/parlor games):
non-English versions;
original submissions by r.m.c. readers;
any evidence of lyrics a composer may have been inspired by when writing a
purely instrumental piece.
-- Dudley ("Full moon and empty arms: Muss es sein? Es muss sein!")
Brooks
Run For Your Life!...
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lanza
I've already previously referred readers of this newsgroup to the
sublime Barbra Streisand's version of Chopin's Minute Waltz on her
"Color Me Barbra" album. Highly recommended. Then go out and buy ALL
of her albums too.
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john Harkness
John Harkness writes
Dudley Brooks wrote:
> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> classical warhorses?
Flanders and Swann once wrote an entire vocalise piece to the Rondo from
Mozart's fourth Horn Concerto., K. 495, entitled Ill Wind.
"I once had a whim and I had to obvey it
To buy a French Horn in a second-hand shop:
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the Neighbours who beffed me to stop."
It goes on in this vein for several minutes. There is a recording of it
that finisheds up Eric Ruske's recording of the Concerti on Telarc with
Mackerras conducting that includes the full lyric.
T. J. Wood
Dudley Brooks wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> classical warhorses?
>
> I'm most interested in lyrics that relate to the actual composition, such
> as
>
> This is
> The symphony
> That Schubert wrote but never finished.
Sigmund Spaeth was the king of this sort of thing. His book "Great
Symphonies
and how to recognize them" is...funny and frightening.
Here's Spaeth's words for the opening of Mozart's 40th Symphony in G
minor:
With a laugh and a smile like a sunbeam,
And a face that is glad, with a fun-beam,
We can start on our way very gaily,
Singing tunes from a symphony daily;
And if Mozart could but hear us,
He would wave his hat and cheer us
Coming down the scale
All hale
and strong
in song,
All hale and strong in song.
Shudder. Heave.
Interesting -- like Schumann, Spaeth feels the opening of the 40th is "a
very happy tune, full of laughter and fun," rather than anxious or
stormy.
The finale of Beethoven's Fifth:
Fall in line,
And let your armor shine!
We have won,
We have won,
And all our struggle with the enemy is done!
The really insidious thing about these words is: once you've heard them,
it may be hard to put them out of your mind when you hear the music!
Argh!
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Thomas Wood
University of Illinois at Springfield
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Dudley Brooks
Thanks! These are so bad, they're good (because they're so obviously from
another era).
-- Dudley Brooks
David Cleary
Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
: classical warhorses?
There are a couple I can think of off the top of my head:
1. opening to Stravinsky "The Rite of Spring:"
Iiiiiii'm not an English horn,
I'm only a bassoon
This is to high for me
I'm not an English horn.
2. the little folk-type tune near the beginning of the last movement of
Tchaikowsky's 4th Symphony has attracted numerous lyrics, from the
inocuous:
Toscanini's wife had a baby
to some pretty scatological ones which can't be printed here.
Hope this helps.
Dave
Ross Mandell
Dudley Brooks <voi...@best.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
>classical warhorses?
Don't forget "I've lost my shirt!" from the Marx Brother's classic
movie "The Coconuts".
(To the famous tune from Carmen if any of you have forgotten)
Donald Patterson
David Cleary wrote:
>
> Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
> : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> : classical warhorses?
>
To Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture:
"I live in a snake pit."
"I live in a snake pit."
--
Don Patterson <don...@erols.com>
"The President's Own"
United States Marine Band
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The views expressed are my own and in no way reflect
those of the U.S. Marine Band or the Marine Corps.
Dave Zechman
Oh, no! Not "Babs" on this NG! Wait, I remember. . . she IS a
classical musician. . . remember that rendering of the Schubert "Ave
Maria" on her Christmas album?!?!?!?!?
:) Dave
Caius Marcius
In <5v1f0r$7lo$3...@news.fas.harvard.edu> dcl...@fas.harvard.edu (David
Cleary) writes:
>
>
>Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
>: Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics
to
>: classical warhorses?
>
Can't give you a URL, but another example would be PDQ Bach's opera A
Little Nightmare Music, which gives the real story of what went on
between Mozart & Salieri (it also involves a time-travelling playwright
from a future 20-something century). The entire opera is sung to Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik.
- CMC
lanza
Are you kidding? Did you forget the recording that Babs did that
focused on ALL classical compositions? As I remember, the Villa-Lobos
of course was on there (the vocalese); a Handel; a song from the
Auvergne (although Kiri probably had no trouble sleeping after hearing
it!), among others. Maybe the Ave Maria was on there too. Actually, I
don't like her religious performances on the Xmas album--too overdone,
vocally. But, at her best (which is almost always) she can blow almost
any other vocalist away, except for Cissy Houston, that is!
Diane Wilson
In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.97090...@shell4.ba.best.com>, Dudley Brooks <voi...@best.com> writes:
|> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
|> classical warhorses?
|>
|> I'm most interested in lyrics that relate to the actual composition, such
|> as
|>
|> This is
|> The symphony
|> That Schubert wrote but never finished.
I belive that the correct version is
This is
The symphony
That Schubert wrote but never fin
Also, there was that atrocious Quaker Puffed Oats commercial years ago
that forever ruined the 1812 overture:
This is the cereal that's shot from guns (cannon blast)
This is the cereal that's shot from guns (cannon blast)
...
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http://www.lava.net/~dewilson/ | poverty of attention.
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Adam Komisaruk
>Also acceptable would be topical satire (i.e. on topics other than the
>piece itself) and even pop songs set to classical classics. (Just today I
>heard a Lebanese song about Beirut during the Civil War, set to the second
>movement of the Rodrigo Guitar Concerto -- or possibly set to Miles
>Davis's version of it!)
I could never figure out why much of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" turned up
(in rock and/or soft-porn pop arrangements) in Ken Russell's dreadful movie
"Crimes of Passion." Any insights would be appreciated.
Bill Baldwin
Diane Wilson wrote:
> Also, there was that atrocious Quaker Puffed Oats commercial years ago
> that forever ruined the 1812 overture:
And it was such a great piece, before. ;-)
Calls to mind the Frasier episode that had dialogue something like this:
Niles: And I can remember when YOU thought the 1812 Overture was a great
piece of classical music.
Frasier: Ha! Was I ever so young?
It means more if you know the characters, of course.
--
Bill Baldwin
sueg...@muscanet.com
In article <3414B6...@erols.com>,> > : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > : classical warhorses?
> >
>
> To Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture:
>
> "I live in a snake pit."
> "I live in a snake pit."
>
> --
> Don Patterson <don...@erols.com>
> "The President's Own"
> United States Marine Band
>
>
I prefer "What time does the bar close? What time does the bar close?",
which somebody submitted the last time this thread appeared in r.m.c.
My husband thought of "All I eat is sauerkraut, sauerkraut, sauerkraut.."
to the tune of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Sue Sarlette
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Paul Goldstein
I still think the 1812 Overture is a great piece of music and I don't
really care what its creator later said about it.
Keith Chaffee
Dudley Brooks wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> classical warhorses?
>
>
> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> classical warhorses?
There was a book published a few years back called "From Bach to Worse"
that was a collection of this sort of thing. Don't know if it's still
in print or not.
K. Chaffee
CONSTANTIN MARCOU
I wonder if either of you realizes that the words would also fit the
Ride of the Valkyrie?
> > > : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > > : classical warhorses?
> > >
> >
> >
> > "I live in a snake pit."
> > "I live in a snake pit."
> >
> > --
> > Don Patterson <don...@erols.com>
> > "The President's Own"
> > United States Marine Band
> >
> >
>
> I prefer "What time does the bar close? What time does the bar close?",
> which somebody submitted the last time this thread appeared in r.m.c.
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Tom Brennan
On 9 Sep 1997 21:43:18 GMT, "Bill Baldwin" <rev...@gte.net> wrote:
>
>Diane Wilson wrote:
>
>> Also, there was that atrocious Quaker Puffed Oats commercial years ago
>> that forever ruined the 1812 overture:
>
>And it was such a great piece, before. ;-)
>
>Calls to mind the Frasier episode that had dialogue something like this:
>
>Niles: And I can remember when YOU thought the 1812 Overture was a great
>piece of classical music.
>
>Frasier: Ha! Was I ever so young?
>
>It means more if you know the characters, of course.
yes, I remember that episode - showed that the show was a cut above
the usual tripe you get on TV these days
Tom Brennan
lanza
Jeremy Cook wrote:
>
> Dudley Brooks wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > classical warhorses?
> >
> Not to be overlooked is the famous Elmer Fudd version of "Ride of the
> Valkyries":
>
> I'm going to kill the wabbit,
> Kill the wabbit,
> Kill the wabbit!
>
> Jeremy Cook - Newtown, CT
You're right: that's What's Opera, Doc? Don't leave out Bugs's
immortal words to the Rhinelander journey theme: I forget the first
part of the couplet, but it ends with Bugs's signature, "eh, what's up,
Doc?" Oh, yes: something like this (spoken to Fudd):
"O mighty warrior of great fighting stock,
May I inquire of you, eh, what's up Doc?"
Diane Wilson
In article <5v4ftm$qrv$3...@gte1.gte.net>, rev...@gte.net says...
> Diane Wilson wrote:
>
> > Also, there was that atrocious Quaker Puffed Oats commercial years ago
> > that forever ruined the 1812 overture:
>
> And it was such a great piece, before. ;-)
Hey!! What have you got against schlock and excess?
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Diane Wilson
In article <34162B...@earthlink.net>, conm...@earthlink.net says...
> I wonder if either of you realizes that the words would also fit the
> Ride of the Valkyrie?
No, those words are, "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit."
Jim Haynes
When I was a kid a friend gave me a set of 45 RPM records of the
Nutcracker Suite, Spike Jones version, with silly words to all the
pieces. How can I ever forgive him?
Donald Patterson
lanza wrote:
>
> Jeremy Cook wrote:
> >
> > Dudley Brooks wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > > classical warhorses?
> > >
> > Not to be overlooked is the famous Elmer Fudd version of "Ride of the
> > Valkyries":
> >
> > I'm going to kill the wabbit,
> > Kill the wabbit,
> > Kill the wabbit!
While we're on the subject, remember "The Rabbit of Seville?"
Bugs:
"There, you're nice and clean,
although your face looks-like-it-might-have-gone-tru-a-ma-chine."
Elmer:
Oh! Where'll I get that wabbit?!
Bugs:
What would you want with a wabbit?
Can't you see that I'm much sweeta?
I'm you're little senoriter.
--
Don Patterson <don...@erols.com>
"The President's Own"
United States Marine Band
Concerned about the state of the Mac?
Donald Patterson
lanza wrote:
>
> Jeremy Cook wrote:
> >
> > Dudley Brooks wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > > classical warhorses?
> > >
> > Not to be overlooked is the famous Elmer Fudd version of "Ride of the
> > Valkyries":
> >
> > I'm going to kill the wabbit,
> > Kill the wabbit,
> > Kill the wabbit!
> >
> > Jeremy Cook - Newtown, CT
>
> You're right: that's What's Opera, Doc? Don't leave out Bugs's
> immortal words to the Rhinelander journey theme: I forget the first
> part of the couplet, but it ends with Bugs's signature, "eh, what's up,
> Doc?" Oh, yes: something like this (spoken to Fudd):
>
> "O mighty warrior of great fighting stock,
> May I inquire of you, eh, what's up Doc?"
This should be sung to Siegfried's Horn Call.
Dave Zechman
The "alternative translation" from Don Giovanni, when the statue/ghost
of the Commendatore arrives for dinner:
"Don Giovanni, you've ruined my best shirt."
;)
Dave
Olivier ETERRADOSSI
> > > Dudley Brooks wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> > > > classical warhorses?
We have in France a well known song written by actor Francis Blanche
on the music of the first movement of Beethoven's fifth, which begins
like that :
"La Pince a linge, La pince a linge
La pince a linge
fut inventee en 1887
par un nomme...."
which can be translated (but loose his charm !) as :
"The clothes-peg, the clothes-peg
was discovered in 1887
by a guy called ..."
Perhaps you can find a website with those words...
Olivier
Beth Garfinkel
Check out a little book called _From Bach to Verse_, by Josefa Heifetz.
It features such treasures as
"i hate linguini,
veal scallopini,
Rossini,
and Pachelbel" for the overture to The Barber of Seville
and
"Spaghetti is ready, so eat, everyone,
Any cogniscente knows al dente means that it's done"
for the last movement of Mendelssohn's Italian symphony
(my roommate just cooked a batch of rotini to take to school for lunch,
so I've got pasta on the brain.)
Beth
--
"Under the green wood tree/Who loves to lie with me/And tune his merry
note/Unto the sweet bird's throat/Come hither, come hither, come hither/
Here he shall see/No enemy/But winter and rough weather."
--William Shakespeare
Beth Garfinkel
Well, here's one an organist friend toaught me, to the tune of the theme
of Bach's "Great" fugue in g minor:
My life is such a bore,
My mother is a whore
And to make things worse
My father drives a hearse
But the worst you see,
My brother is a she.
He said that there were more lyrics to Bach fugue themes floating
around, but I've been unable to find any, so if anyone knows where to
find them, please let me know.
Richard Schultz
Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
: classical warhorses?
For the opening of Mozart's 40th:
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Mozart!
And for the opening of Brahms's 4th Symphony:
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms. . .
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Mell Csicsila
Don't forget the opening line to the "Eroica":
Oh, my word, it's Beethoven's Third, AGAIN!
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KSU/Stark Campus :: mcsi...@stark.kent.edu
Jim Harper
One of my music professors mentioned that Rudolf Friml had written many
lyrics to standard classical pieces. I have never seen or heard of any
other reference to Friml's work so I cannot verify that they exist.
Below is a contribution from an anonymous person (not myself). You will
need to make a stretch to make it fit.
Schubert's Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
I hear a symphony that Schubert wrote in the key of b minor
from Dr. Arthur Hills Sonoma State College 1973
Mozart Symphony No. 40 final movement
Oh, Mozart's in the brig.
Let him out!
Let him out!
Let him out!
Dudley Brooks
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Mell Csicsila wrote:
> Don't forget the opening line to the "Eroica":
>
> Oh, my word, it's Beethoven's Third, AGAIN!
Don't forget the two opening chords. I think it must be:
Help!
Help!
Oh, my word,
it's Beethoven's Third
again!
And I don't think the exclamation point on "again" properly expresses the
poignancy of the dimished chord, but my keyboard doesn't have a poignant
point.
Thanks again to everyone who continues to send in responses to my original
query.
-- Dudley Brooks
Run For Your Life!...
...it's a dance company!
San Francisco
http://www.best.com/~voices/
David Samuel Barr
lanza wrote:
>
> Dave Zechman wrote:
> >
> > Oh, no! Not "Babs" on this NG! Wait, I remember. . . she IS a
> > classical musician. . . remember that rendering of the Schubert "Ave
> > Maria" on her Christmas album?!?!?!?!?
> >
> > :) Dave
> >
> > lanza wrote:
> > >
> > > I've already previously referred readers of this newsgroup to the
> > > sublime Barbra Streisand's version of Chopin's Minute Waltz on her
> > > "Color Me Barbra" album. Highly recommended. Then go out and buy
> > > LALL of her albums too.
> > > --
> > >
>
> Are you kidding? Did you forget the recording that Babs did that
> focused on ALL classical compositions? As I remember, the Villa-Lobos
> of course was on there (the vocalese); a Handel; a song from the
> Auvergne (although Kiri probably had no trouble sleeping after hearing
> it!), among others. Maybe the Ave Maria was on there too.
The lineup of "Classical Barbra" was:
Debussy: Beau Soir
Canteloube: Brezairola from Songs of the Auvergne
Hugo Wolf: Verschwiegene Liebe
Faure: Pavane [as a vocalise]
Faure: Apres un Reve
Orff: In Trutina from Carmina Burana
Handel: Lascia Ch'io Pianga
Schumann: Mondnacht
Handel: Dank sei Dir, Herr
Claus Ogerman: I Loved You [written in 1973]
If I remember correctly, this album was generally panned by all but the
unshakable worshippers of this grossly overrated pop singer, and was by
far her lowest-selling album.
Mike Zorn
>The lineup of "Classical Barbra" was:
>Claus Ogerman: I Loved You [written in 1973]
11 cuts. I still have the album, and still like it. The "odd
man out" here is nr 11. I think I heard that Ogerman is a friend of
BS - the piece certainly isn't classical.
My only problem with the album is that all the songs are slow,
quiet, easy. There's no reaching for either volume or range, no
"showing off the pipes". It's been a long time since I've heard it,
so I'll have to go back and check out the phrasing.
It's not surprising that it didn't cut into Leontyne Price album
sales.
Mike Zorn rigo...@kaiwan.com
http://www.kaiwan.com/~rigoleto/ocmns.htm
Mike Zorn
I once heard a set of "lyrics" to one of the movements of the
Pastorale Symphony. It was several years before I could stand to hear
it again - the words just ruined it for me.
If somebody really annoys me, I'll send them to them.
lanza
> There's no reaching for either volume or range, no
> "showing off the pipes".
Yes, I find Babs less interesting singing soft than loud, utilizing her
wide range and muscular vocal ability. For me, she's best at
contemporary pop or theatre songs, which generally have a more muscular
melodic line than traditional Alley songs, such as Rodgers and Hart,
Youmans, the Gershwins, etc. Others are better at phrasing those songs
(Sinatra, Holliday, Garland, etc.) than she. Alternately, she tends to
overbear down on a song that requires lighter, more delicate,
treatment. I never did like her Xmas album for that reason; she seems
alternately bored or dismissive (Jingle Bells) on that album. But, for
the rest of the Streisand catalogue: it'll keep the customers
satisfied!
Dudley Brooks
On 21 Sep 1997, Mike Zorn wrote:
> I once heard a set of "lyrics" to one of the movements of the
> Pastorale Symphony. It was several years before I could stand to hear
> it again - the words just ruined it for me.
> If somebody really annoys me, I'll send them to them.
I'm the original poster of the request for lyrics. Please let me know
what I need to do to annoy you ;^)
Paul Bossi
Some years ago I noticed that the song used on the Murphy's Oil Soap
commercial (melody was that of a ubiquitus folk tune, which I can't
recall) has an identical cadence to that of Beethoven's Ode to Joy; thus
you could subsitute the Murphy's Oil plug (or the text of the original
folk tune, whatever it was) for Schiller's text, and it fits Beethoven's
melody perfectly (if you wanted to get really profane; it would rival in
tackiness that investment banking racket using the Choral Fantasy melody
to peddle investment advise). Sorry if this response is unclear; perhaps
it's best that way.
Mike Zorn wrote:
> I once heard a set of "lyrics" to one of the movements of the
> Pastorale Symphony. It was several years before I could stand to hear
> it again - the words just ruined it for me.
> If somebody really annoys me, I'll send them to them.
>
Pauline Lerner
Of course, there's the classic "Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize" by
Tom Lehrer to one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Richard Schultz
Pauline Lerner (paul...@erols.com) wrote:
: Of course, there's the classic "Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize" by
: Tom Lehrer to one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Actually, the only part of that song that uses the Hungarian Rhapsody
is the bit
And then I write
By morning light
Or afternoon
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed
[spoken] When he finds out I publish first.
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To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all;
No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes. . ."
James Kahn
Pauline Lerner (paul...@erols.com) wrote:
: Of course, there's the classic "Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize" by
: Tom Lehrer to one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Perhaps I missed part of this, but...
I'm stunned that I haven't seen the great Alan Sherman's name come up
in this thread. Have we become so ignorant of our culture and history? :)
Most people know "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" sung to music from "La Gioconda".
But he has many other gems, one of my favorite being "Hungarian Goulash"
sung to the tune of Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5. I'll go as far as I can
remember:
If you like Hungarian food,
There is a goulash, which is very good.
Or, if-you-wish, a dish that's Chinese,
somewhere down in Chinatown,
there is Cantonese.
Enchiladas, that's what--they eat in Mexico,
Shish-kebab is skewered--in Armenia you know.
[slower] Then there's blubber, the favorite, of the frigid Eskimo,
Such! delicious dishes, no-matter-where-you-go!
Chicken cacciatore is Italian,
Kangaroo souffle must be Australian,
etc., etc.
He also had one to "Torni a Sorrento", which is not quite classical, but
worth mentioning. It starts out:
Counting both feet I have ten toes,
They're not lady toes they're men toes
And I keep them as mementos,
For I love them tenderly...
--
Jim
New York, NY
http://www.panix.com/~kahn
Beth Garfinkel
>Pauline Lerner (paul...@erols.com) wrote:
>: Of course, there's the classic "Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize" by
>: Tom Lehrer to one of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
>Actually, the only part of that song that uses the Hungarian Rhapsody
>is the bit
>And then I write
>By morning light
>Or afternoon
>And pretty soon
>My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed
>[spoken] When he finds out I publish first.
Speaking of Tom Lehrer, there's also a bit in his song abou Hubert
Humphrey to Schubert's Die Nachtigall:
"As someone once remarked to Schubert,
Take me to your leader (lieder)."
And of course, there's always "The Elements," to the tune of "I am the
very model of a modern Major General." Of course, in this case, the
original is already pretty silly to begin with!
Brian J Goggin
On 24 Sep 97 19:07:17 GMT, bgar...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Beth
Garfinkel) wrote:
[...]
>And of course, there's always "The Elements," to the tune of "I am the
>very model of a modern Major General." Of course, in this case, the
>original is already pretty silly to begin with!
>
No doubt you have already included the Flanders and Swann "I had a
French Horn"?
bjg
David Samuel Barr
It's actually called "Ill Wind", from the "At the Drop of Another Hat"
album.
To the finale of Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto:
"I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy a French horn at a second-hand shop.
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop."
Graeme M Keith
There's the Monty Python song about Oliver Cromwell set to Chopin's
'Heroic' Polonaise. It begins spoken...
The funny thing about the Charles I was that at the start of his reign
he was 5 foot six, but at the end he was only four foot eight...
and then launches in to the polonaise...
It's every bit as bad as you might imagine (but amusing to anyone who
studied Cromwell etc at school).
GK
Peter North
funny lyrics for:
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, waltz movement
opening and main theme
First she was a virgin,
Then she was a whore,
First she didn't want to,
Now, she craves for more and more and more and........
Tchaikovsky Symphony #5, final movement
main cyclical theme
Whose.....got the keys......to the shit house
Whose.....got the keys......to the shit house
Lyrics credited to brass section of London Symphony Orchestra
David J. Loftus
I once heard a recording of Daffy Duck singing about being hunted to the
tune of ... oh, geez, probably another one of those Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Partial lyrics:
It's bang-bang here and bang-bang there,
Bullets flying everywhere,
I can't stand it any longer,
I get weak and they get stronger....
Then of course, there's Elmer and Bugs using the Rid of the Valkyries and
other snippets of Wagner in "What's Opera, Doc?" --
"Kill the WABbit, kill the WABbit, kill the WABbit...."
David Loftus
David & Annette Jarratt-Knock
Not sure if anyone's yet sent in the words to 'March to the Scaffold'
from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique:
Beef vindaloo,
Half a dozen poppadums and mango chutney
Onion bahji...
de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum
(I've only ever heard it with the 'de dums' - if anyone knows any more,
I'd be delighted!)
David Jarratt-Knock
Birmimgham, UK
Alexandra C Molnar-Suhajda
David & Annette Jarratt-Knock (da...@zink.abel.co.uk) wrote:
: Not sure if anyone's yet sent in the words to 'March to the Scaffold'
: David Jarratt-Knock
:
I don't remember where I heard this, but for the opening basson solo
in 'The Rite of Spring' there are some words that start with: "I am not
an Eng-lish Horn... I am just a bassoon... this is just too high for
me!".
Alexandra
Birmimgham, UK
Kastchei
> I don't remember where I heard this, but for the opening basson solo
> in 'The Rite of Spring' there are some words that start with: "I am not
> an Eng-lish Horn... I am just a bassoon... this is just too high for
> me!".
that's so cool :)
mike
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Oh... there's one I forgot! When one of our music history professors was
going over the Haydn, he taught us to remember the London Symphony with:
I know that thisisthe one oh six from Lon-don! Oh six from
Lon-don!
and Mozart's no. 40 with:
Oh my God, oh my God, this is Mozart...
well... we never got any farther with the lyrics (although around exam
time there were some variations that I can't post here...)
Alexandra
Christopher M. Smith
David J. Loftus wrote:
> Then of course, there's Elmer and Bugs using the Rid of the Valkyries and
> other snippets of Wagner in "What's Opera, Doc?" --
>
> "Kill the WABbit, kill the WABbit, kill the WABbit...."
"Oh, Bruenhilde, you're so lovely..."
"Yes, I know it. I can't help it."
What a great cartoon. I also love (in the Bugs does
classical vein) "Long-Haired Hare" and "The Rabbit of Seville".
There have also been several cartoons in the genre of the
one that gave rise to Michegan J. Frog, but with instruments.
I remember at least one where a mouse exhibited an amazing
talent for Chopin and rose to world reknown. The dejected cat,
IIRC, became a jazz star...
What other cartoon uses of classical do you remember?
I recall the Smurfs using a lot of Mussorgsky. What I find
interesting is that the classical works used by WB and others to
excite kids in cartoons are usually (from what I remember) not
the same as the works used by, e.g., classical radio stations in
kids' classical programs. The cartoons seem more willing to
delve into works many might expect children not to get (esp. from
the way they program those kids' classical things...). On a
related note, I read an article recently about contemporary
precocious composers (like, 10 years old and at Julliard...).
One teacher said that a lot of the young composers seemed
reminiscent of young Mozart, and was unsure whether this was
because this is a, in some sense, natural way for a young
composer to approach classical music or because they are
simly exposed to so much more Morzart than, say, Britten.
-Chris
al...@rev.net
sueg...@muscanet.com wrote:
>In article <3414B6...@erols.com>,
> *NOSPAM*@erols.com wrote:
>> David Cleary wrote:
>> >
>> > Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
>> > : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
>> > : classical warhorses?
>> To Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture:
>>
>> "I live in a snake pit."
>> "I live in a snake pit."
>I prefer "What time does the bar close? What time does the bar close?",
>which somebody submitted the last time this thread appeared in r.m.c.
>My husband thought of "All I eat is sauerkraut, sauerkraut, sauerkraut.."
>to the tune of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Mnemonic:
"Bar-ca-role from Ta-ales of Hoff-mann by-y-y Of-fen-bach, boop-boop."
Where did William Tell take his trash?
"To the dump, to the dump, to the dump, dump, dump"
E. Kammin
I believe it was Lady Diana Menuhin who suggested words for the
principal theme of the last movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto:
"Thank God it's over, thank God it's over, it's over, it's over, it's
over as last".
Or, (author unkonwn) for the "Soldier's Chorus" from Gounod's "Faust":
"My father, he slaughtered a kangaroo
And gave me the gristly end to chew.
Wasn't that a terrible thing to do
To give me to chew
The gristly end
Of a dead kangaroo."
Ed K.
hnews
E. Kammin wrote:
>
> >>> > Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
> >>> > : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> >>> > : classical warhorses?
These are hilarious. He's one I was given by a friend, that originally
was posted on a choral newsgroup.
Warning: some may consider it sacreligious or sumtin. Apparently there
was quite a furor when it was first posted. My hubby is a baptist
minister, and I'm 'born-again', but I found it quite funny. God has a
sense of humour, after all he created humans...
From: Alan J. Prater <ajpr...@bellsouth.net>
To: Choralist <chor...@lists.colorado.edu>
Date: November 20, 1997 8:22 PM
Subject: Messiah Parody
Greetings, listers. My voice instructor sent this to me tonight, and I
thought I would share it:
The Messyah
Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Toast:
"Yet once a little while, and I will bake
the breads and dessert, whole wheat and the rye-bread;
all bagels, I’ll bake, with the desire of all noshers for some.
The chef whom ye seek shall certainly send you a sample,
ev’n by messenger with an oven mitt (which ye fit right in);
Behold! Even buns!" saith the Lord of Toast.
cf. also "The crumpet shall brown," below.
But who may abide the bray of his strumming,
and who shall stand when he premiereth?
For he has liked to get minors sired.
For he shall surely buy,
For he shall surely buy,--a ton of Levi’s;
That he may offer unto the horde
an offering of "righteous" dress.
Behold! A sturgeon shall bite Steve, and take his gun,
and shall hold a flame to Samuel.
Cod with us.
O thou, that sellest good siding to Brian,
Get thee up unto the accountants...
There were shepherds, imbibing in the fields,
drinking scotch over the rocks by night.
And lo! the urge to smorgasbord came upon them
and a glorious aroma round about them;
they thought they had it made.
But the waiter said unto them, "Here? Not!
for behold, we’re out of smoked salmon and cream cheese.
Take your spree to those people:
For you will find across the way, in the Cafe' of David,
A flavor which is spiced--galore!"
His yolk is over easy, his breakfast is "lite."
All we, asleep, still have to play;
we have yearned, every one for his own pay.
Thou art gone onstage high, thou art gone onstage high!
Thou hast held the Cabernet captive, and enough gin for ten,
Yea, even for thine enemas!
Front row, poor sods, thou fell among them!
Thou shalt fake them with their rotten high runs,
Thou shalt thrash them, those pieces, while thy daughters wrestle.
The Lord saved the herd:
Great was the humping among the creatures.
How beautiful is the seat of him that teaches the sophomores in Greece,
And fits so tightly in good jeans...
Since by van came Beth,
by van came also the headboard section of the bed.
But has she had some more pie?
Even just one slice, with all that stuff inside!
The crumpet shall brown,
and the bread shall be raised--it smells wonderful!
(Are those eggs free range?)
Oh Beth, where is thy thing?
Oh Dave, where is thy d*** for me?
The thing of Beth is thin,
and the length of his is quite long.
But thanks, thanks be to Todd,
Who playeth us the timpani through our long winter nights.
Honolulu! For I would rather be on vacation!
The thing about this world is the sun;
Get me a seat on board tomorrow’s flight, tomorrow’s flight,
And catch those rays for ever and ever.
Fling of flings, and scores of whores, Honolulu!
--compiled by G.T. for the December 1993 _Philharmonia Baroque
Musician_, the newsletter of Philharmonia Baroque
players. (c) PBM 1993
Alan Prater, itinerant tenor
ajpr...@bellsouth.net
heather the buzzard
William H. Pittman
Beginning of Beethoven's Quartet, Op. 18, #1: "How...do you like my feet?
--
William H. Pittman
William H. Pittman
Finale of Mozart's 40th Symphony, without the pickup: "Mozart's in the
closet; let him out! let him out! let him out!
--
William H. Pittman
Dan Szymborski
In article <whpitt-2801...@dialup-52.global2000.net>, William H.
Pittman says...
> Finale of Mozart's 40th Symphony, without the pickup: "Mozart's in the
> closet; let him out! let him out! let him out!
And don't forget, the first movement starts out: "It's a bird, it's a
plane, it's a Mozart! Shoot him down! Shoot him down! Shoot him down!"
--
Dan Szymborski--Founder of the Doug Mientkiewicz Fan Club
Wanted to Sell: One experienced GM. Comes equipped with Joe Carter and
Doug Drabek. Free to good home. Will pay for shipping.
www.baseballstuff.com - Home to lots of baseball...uh...stuff
Jeff Wilson
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 06:36:11 GMT, al...@rev.net wrote:
>sueg...@muscanet.com wrote:
>
>>In article <3414B6...@erols.com>,
>> *NOSPAM*@erols.com wrote:
>
>>> David Cleary wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Dudley Brooks (voi...@best.com) wrote:
>>> > : Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
>>> > : classical warhorses?
This is a sym pho ny that
Shu bert wrote and ne ver fi nished.
-----------------------------------
Also, as a first approximation, if you're trying to figure
out whether a minuet is by Mozart or Haydn, try singing
"Are you the O'Reilly that runs this hotel" to it. If you
can, it's more likely to be Haydn.
--
Please remove the two capital X's from my e-mail address before replying via e-mail.
(They are an attempt to thwart unsolicited commercial mail.)
D.G. Porter
Jeff Wilson wrote:
> Also, as a first approximation, if you're trying to figure
> out whether a minuet is by Mozart or Haydn, try singing
> "Are you the O'Reilly that runs this hotel" to it. If you
> can, it's more likely to be Haydn.
I tried singing it to these words and it turned out to be in 5/4....
"Is that Mister Reilly who keeps the hotel?"
Is the tune that accomp'nies the trotting track bell;
An old horse unsound, turns the merry-go-round,
Making poor Mister Riley look a bit like a Russian dance
Some speak of so highly, as they do of Riley!
hnews
There's some really good ones here - if people send them to me
personally, I'll make a collection and put them on my web site.
email me at hdu...@uvic.ca
Nat228
Hnews (hdu...@uvic.ca) wrote:
I have a whole list that I compiled from this thread a few months ago, and you
(hdunham) are welcome to have them, as long as you tell us the address of your
web site so we can go look at it!
FUNNY LYRICS TO CLASSICAL WARHORSES
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica
[opening]
Oh! Oh!
Oh, my word, it's Beethoven's Third, again...
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
[opening]
Beethoven's Fourth!
Beethoven's Fourth!
Beethoven's Fourth Beethoven's Fourth Beethoven's Fourth,
Beethoven's Fourth Beethoven's Fourth Beethoven's Fourth,
Beethoven's Fourth,
Beethoven's Fourth,
Beethoven's Fourth!
Oops!
Fifth!
[finale]
Fall in line,
And let your armor shine!
We have won,
We have won,
And all our struggle with the enemy is done!
Beethoven Violin Concerto
[3rd movement]
Thank God it's over,
Thank God it's over,
Thank God, thank God, thank God it's oVER !
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
[March to the Scaffold]
Beef vindaloo,
Half a dozen poppadums and mango chutney
Onion bahji...
De dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum de dum
Brahms Symphony No. 4
[opening]
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms...
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, From the New World
[2nd mvmt]
Goin' home, goin' home, I'm a goin' home;
Quiet-like, some still day, I'm jes' goin' home.
It's not far, jes' close by,
Through an open door;
Work all done, care laid by,
Goin' to fear no more.
Mother's there 'spectin' me,
Father's waitin' too;
Lots o' folk gather'd there,
All the friends I knew,
All the friends I knew.
Home, I'm goin' home!
Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King
All I eat is sauerkraut, sauerkraut, sauerkraut..
Haydn Symphony No. 104, London
I know that this-is-the one-oh-four from Lon-don! Oh-four from Lon-don!
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
I live in a snake pit. I live in a snake pit.
What time does the bar close? What time does the bar close?
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, Italian
Spaghetti is ready, so eat, everyone,
Any cogniscente knows al dente means that it's done
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
[rondo/finale]
I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy a French Horn in a second-hand shop.
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the neighbors who begged me to stop.
Mozart Symphony No. 40
[first movement]
With a laugh and a smile like a sunbeam,
And a face that is glad, with a fun-beam,
We can start on our way very gaily,
Singing tunes from a symphony daily;
And if Mozart could but hear us,
He would wave his hat and cheer us
Coming down the scale
All hale
and strong
in song,
All hale and strong in song.
Oh my God, oh my God, this is Mozart...
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Mozart!
[fourth movement]
Mozart's in the closet. Let him out! Let him out! Let him out!
Rossini Overture to Barber of Seville
I hate linguini,
veal scallopini,
Rossini,
and Pachelbel.
Schubert Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
This is
The symphony
That Schubert wrote but never finished.
Stravinsky Rite of Spring
I'm not an English Horn
I'm only a bassoon
This is too high for me
I'm not an English Horn
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
[taken from Quaker Oats commercial]
This is the cereal that's shot from guns [cannon blast]
This is the cereal that's shot from guns [cannon blast]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
[fourth movement, is it the second theme?]
Toscanini's wife had a baby...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
[waltz movement]
First she was a virgin,
Then she was a whore.
First she didn't want it,
Now, she craves for more and more and more and...
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
I'm going to kill the wabbit,
Kill the wabbit,
Kill the wabbit!
D.G. Porter
Nat228 wrote:
> Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
> I'm going to kill the wabbit,
> Kill the wabbit,
> Kill the wabbit!
A blind friend got the bright idea to cut off all of one eyebrow because
he had bumped his head and "the hairs hurt!" Then he shaved the other
one so they'd match. [Someone needs to tell these people what they'll
look like to others when they do these things!!!]
And so, overtracking an old 78, I gave him:
I got a bad haircut,
I got a bad haircut,
I got a bad haircut,
I got a bad cut!
I shaved off my eyebrows,
I shaved off my eyebrows,
I shaved off my eyebrows,
I shaved off my brows!
I SHAVED OFF MY BROWS!
He shaved off his brows!
I shaved off my eyebrows,
I shaved off my brows!
I shaved my brows OFF!
I shaved my brows OFF!
Shaved 'em off!!!!
I shaved my brows OFF!
I shaved my brows OFF!
OFF!!!!
(da capo)
Dudley Brooks
On 29 Jan 1998, Nat228 wrote:
> Hnews (hdu...@uvic.ca) wrote:
>
> >There's some really good ones here - if people send them to me
> >personally, I'll make a collection and put them on my web site.
> >
> >email me at hdu...@uvic.ca
>
> I have a whole list that I compiled from this thread a few months ago, and you
> (hdunham) are welcome to have them, as long as you tell us the address of your
> web site so we can go look at it!
<snipped>
Some of these are copyrighted. I think it's obvious which ones are
anonymous.
> Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
> [waltz movement]
> First she was a virgin,
> Then she was a whore.
> First she didn't want it,
> Now, she craves for more and more and more and...
I've heard this more frequently as
Once she was a virgin,
Now she is a whore.
Once she didn't want it,
Now she craves it more and more and more and..
which I think "sings" better.
As the original requester (at least this time around) I look forward to
the website.
Now I invite people to submit their own creations, if others on the ng
don't object. I'll start with two of my own, which I hereby copyright as
"Lyrics Copyright (C) 1998 by Dudley Brooks" and which I hereby give
anyone permission to quote if they think it's worth it, as long as they
attribute them to me. I don't think they'll get famous, because they're
too specifically about the situations that generated them, and not about
the music itself, which the best funny lyrics are.
*********
I was once in a choreographed number to the Bacchanale from Samson and
Delilah, which featured, among other things, an "Oriental" figure parading
through the audience with a brazier of incense. We were performing
in the cavernous San Francisco Civic Auditorium when Arthur Fiedler
guested with the San Francisco Symphony, and a lot of the scantily-clad
dancers had colds, so someone suggested Vicks Vaporub instead of incense.
Hence:
Use Vicks Vaporub to clear the nasal passage.
Use it as a vapor, or to give a mas-sage. <groan>
Just inhale it, you'll breathe more freely.
Rub it on a-and feely, feely, feely!
(Vicks Vaporub, Vicks Vaporub, try it!
Vicks Vaporub, Vicks Vaporub, buy it!)
At a Bacchanale it has a thousand uses,
From hiding body odors to sexual abuses.
Use the vapor to fill the room with.
Use the ointment to tickle a bazoom with.
********
Another time I was in a production of Nutcracker, and the music which
usually signals Drosselmeyer's entrance to the party was used instead for
the fathers at the party "singing" a Christmas carol. Our "music" was
pieces of cardboard with some Christmas wrapping paper pasted on that had
musical staves with teddy bears on them, and the caption "Be My Teddy
Bear". So I gave us the words to sing:
Be
My
Teddy Bear,
Run your furry little fing-
-gers
Through my hair.
Let me cuddle up into
Your
Lair,
And then, Darling, if
We
Dare,
If no one out in front
Will
Stare,
Then maybe you would rub
Me
There.
Oh, God, rub me harder,
Please rub me harder,
Oh, God, oh Clara, Fritz and Drosselmeyer, see the Christmas tree grow
higher!
A-a-a-a-ah-men!
Yeah!
-- Dudley Brooks
Run For Your Life!...
...it's a dance company!
San Francisco
http://www.best.com/~voices/
Martha Oppenheim
hnews wrote:
>
> There's some really good ones here - if people send them to me
> personally, I'll make a collection and put them on my web site.
>
> email me at hdu...@uvic.ca
How about:
Mahler Symphony #5: beginning
Mahler is sick
Mahler is sick
Mahler is ILL!!!
-
Mahler is ill
Mahler is ill
MAHLER IS DEAD!!!
Rossini: William Tell Overture (3rd section)
Dawn - over valley and
Dawn - over mountain and
Dawn - where the shepherd is pla-a-a-aying his flute
Shostakovich Symphony #7: the notorious march
Here come the Nazis
Here come the Nazis
Here come the Nazis
Those goddam stinking Nazis
Those goddam stinking Nazis
Russ O.
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mopp...@ix.netcom.com
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Frank Eggleston
William H. Pittman wrote:
> Finale of Mozart's 40th Symphony, without the pickup: "Mozart's in the
> closet; let him out! let him out! let him out!
>
> --
> William H. Pittman
Try "Is Mozart in the box?"
"Let him out, let him out, let him out!"
Frank Eggleston
Gary Stucka
During my five years as a member of the Cleveland Orchestra I of course
heard many Szell stories. A particular favorite involves the fact that
he had a real hang-up about the start of the Mozart 40th. He always
felt that he had a problem starting the piece in such a way as to have
the violas playing their eighth notes together but also with the right
preparatory "flavor" for the violin entrance.
This predicament resulted in a less-than-usually-clear beat. Someone
invented these words for the melody of the first movement:
Mister Szell
would you please
give a downbeat
that is worthy
of your
reputation.
Regards to all, Gary Stucka
David Samuel Barr
William H. Pittman wrote:
>
> Finale of Mozart's 40th Symphony, without the pickup: "Mozart's in the
> closet; let him out! let him out! let him out!
>
I missed the first couple of posts to this thread, but has anyone
mentioned one of the most famous "Mozart lyrics", namely the Flanders
& Swann's "Ill Wind" to the rondo of the fourth horn concerto??
(Respecting copyright, I'll quote only the first few lines:)
I once had a whim and I had to obey it
To buy a French horn in a second-hand shop.
I polished it up and I started to play it
In spite of the neighbours who begged me to stop.
(The rest can be found on the EMI album "At the Drop of Another Hat",
as well as in the F&S songbook published by St. Martin's Press.)
Ehrlich606
Standard lyric to be sung to opening of "Sacre du Printemps"
"I'm not an English horn, this note's too high for me."
OK, not so funny.
peter...@gmail.com
On Monday, September 8, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Dudley Brooks wrote:
> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
> classical warhorses?
>
> as
> This is
> The symphony
> That Schubert wrote but never finished.
>
>
> Beethoven's Fifth!
> Beethoven's Fifth!
> etc.
>
> or the much better
> Beethoven's Fourth!
> Beethoven's Fourth!
> Oops!
> Fifth!
>
> Your Webfooted Friends".
>
> Also acceptable would be topical satire (i.e. on topics other than the
> piece itself) and even pop songs set to classical classics. (Just today I
> heard a Lebanese song about Beirut during the Civil War, set to the second
> movement of the Rodrigo Guitar Concerto -- or possibly set to Miles
> Davis's version of it!)
>
> Other possible subcategories (and new threads/parlor games):
>
> non-English versions;
>
> original submissions by r.m.c. readers;
>
> any evidence of lyrics a composer may have been inspired by when writing a
> purely instrumental piece.
>
> -- Dudley ("Full moon and empty arms: Muss es sein? Es muss sein!")
John W Kennedy
> How about these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfoYHOARJVn5847z-JiDAIi1KTyssR80m
>
> On Monday, September 8, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Dudley Brooks wrote:
>> Does anyone know of an Internet or print collection of funny lyrics to
>> classical warhorses?
>>
>> I'm most interested in lyrics that relate to the actual composition, such
>> as
>>
>> This is
>> The symphony
>> That Schubert wrote but never finished.
They are said to be by Walter Damrosch.
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"