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Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S)

13 Aug 06 - 12:38 AM (#1808536)
Subject: Lyr Add: MY NAME IS JOHN WELLINGTON WELLS (G&S)
From: chico


  (F C G7 C) (a to high f, g to high e, a ab a c b a, g f# g a g f, d e f g a b c)
         C
  Oh! My name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in magic and spells,
       G7                      C                       G7                      C
  In blessings and curses and ever-filled purses, in prophecies, witches, and knells.
  If you want a proud foe to make tracks--if you'd melt a rich uncle in wax--
  You've but to look in, on the resident Djinn, number seventy, Simmery Axe!
  
            Am                                      E7                    Am
  We've a first-class assortment of magic; and for raising a posthumous shade,
         Am                                      Eb°                       E
  With effects that are comic or tragic, there's no cheaper house in the trade.
         B7                          E           B7                   E
  Love-philtre--we've quantities of it! And for knowledge if any one burns,
      A7        D7            G7         C7           F            D       G
  We keep an extremely small prophet, a prophet who brings us unbounded returns
  
   7           C        G7          C
  For he can prophesy, with a wink of his eye,
   A7          Dm       A7    Dm
  Peep with security, into futurity,
   C7           F       A7        Dm
  Sum up your history, clear up a mystery,
   F#°        G       F#°        G    F#°        G  (C° G)
  Humour proclivity, for a nativity--for a nativity;
          G7       C       G7           C
  He has answers oracular, bogies spectacular,
   A7         Dm       A7         Dm
  Tetrapods tragical, mirrors so magical,
   B7        Em       B7        Em
  Facts astronomical, solemn or comical,
   C°|A°                                                           G7 
  And, if you want it, he, makes a reduction on taking a quantity! Oh!
  (d c b a g f e d c b a g)
      C                                                 
  If any one anything lacks, he'll find it all ready in stacks,
            G7       C             G7       C           F        G7      C  (Intro theme)
  If he'll only look in (If he'll only look in) number seventy, Simmery Axe!
  
          F
  He can raise you hosts of ghosts,
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  And that without reflectors;
        C7/E              F
  And creepy things with wings,        
  And gaunt and grisly spectres.
          D7/F#                G
  He can fill you crowds of shrouds,
       E7/G#       Am
  And horrify you vastly;
          F7/A                  Bb  
  He can rack your brains with chains, 
       G#°                  G
  and gibberings grim and ghastly!
  
  Then, if you plan it, he changes organity,
  With an urbanity full of Satanity,
  Vexes humanity with an inanity
  Fatal to vanity--Driving your foes to the verge of insanity!
  Barring tautology, in demonology,
  'Lectro-biology, mystic nosology,
  Spirit philology, high-class astrology,
  Such is his knowledge, he isn't the man to require an apology! Oh!
  
  Oh! my name is John Wellington Wells &c
          ?                      C                      Dm       G7      C
  You've but to look in, on the resident Djinn, number seventy, Simmery Axe!

From the sorcerer

13 Aug 06 - 12:39 AM (#1808538)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S
From: chico

Question:

Does Number 70 simmary axe (St. Mary Something) still exist?

That would be cool if you could buy the property and then open a magic store!

13 Aug 06 - 02:56 AM (#1808567)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S)
From: GUEST,The Vulgar Boatman

St Mary Axe is still there, between Leadenhall Street and Camomile Street in the City. Number 70, I regret to inform you, is occupied by Targetspace, and Starbucks Coffee. (Number 30, by Norman Foster, is the infamous "Gherkin". I've got a little list....

13 Aug 06 - 04:01 AM (#1808580)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S
From: chico

What the #$#$# is targetspace? Starbucks?

I don't want coffee, I want to melt my rich uncle in wax.

What a waste of an historic address.

This is almost as bad as when they bulldozed Chaucer's "Tabard"

Say it isn't so.

17 Aug 06 - 05:57 AM (#1812077)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S
From: GUEST,Derek Robinson

I think Starbucks is OK for this address.
It sells stuff that is not recognisable and it's a miracle they've survived so long.

17 Aug 06 - 06:59 AM (#1812104)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S)
From: Flash Company

Chico..Love it, wish I could write lyrics like WSG, My attempts usually come out as a pale imitation.

FC

17 Aug 06 - 08:02 AM (#1812144)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S)
From: A Wandering Minstrel

And for the interested the Firm of J W Wells & Co at 70 St Mary Axe is the subject of 4 very funny books by Tom Holt: The Portable Door, In Your Dreams, Earth, Air Fire and Custard and You Don't Have To Be Evil to Work Here

Love Philtres? they have it in quantity!

26 Sep 15 - 01:11 AM (#3739801)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Name is John Wellington Wells (G&S)
From: GUEST,Marc Drexler

At the time of Gilbert & Sullivan and as late as when the Gherkin was built, there was no 70. When I first tracked the Gherkin down and realized the street, I think the highest address on the block was 60. Then on a later trip to London I noticed a Starbucks had the 66-70 address, and now I understand a "Can of Ham" skyscraper will be 60-70 St. Mary Axe.