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Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)

09 Dec 03 - 02:04 AM (#1068254)
Subject: Lyr Req: Who Pays The Piper
From: GUEST,ozmacca

Can anybody help me with the words for this terrific poem by Richard Stilgoe. Having heard it on a fairly poor recording a number of times I'd dearly love to have the full text, but can't trace it. For those who don't know it, it's about 45 minutes long and is an entire (just about) history of music from Pan to the present (and future) and the recording I have has background music by just about everybody... Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Chopin... the lot.

Help!!!!!


09 Dec 03 - 02:19 AM (#1068261)
Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Joe Offer

Apparently, it's the script for a 45-minute BBC radio program. Can anybody link us to a recording?
-Joe Offer-


05 Aug 22 - 08:33 AM (#4149370)
Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: GUEST,JDTHJNS

https://richardstilgoe.com/poems/Who%20Pays%20the%20Piper.pdf
I have a recording.
I don't know how to share it.
see @JrehnJ on twitter


05 Aug 22 - 09:36 AM (#4149374)
Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Stilly River Sage

Copying that link and dropping into a browser opens the PDF, it doesn't offer to download before seeing it - that's good.


06 Aug 22 - 01:41 AM (#4149454)
Subject: RE: Poem Req: Who Pays The Piper (Richard Stilgoe)
From: Joe Offer

The main Website is https://richardstilgoe.com/index.html. For a donation, you can download an MP3 recording of Who Pays the Piper? Is see that Stilgoe is the author of the brilliant Joyce the Librarian. SRS, I'll be interested to know what you think about Joyce. I sing it rarely, in fear my librarian friends might be offended.