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Thread #82788   Message #2675603
Posted By: JJ
09-Jul-09 - 08:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Princ
Guest requested this last August. I believe it to be correct, but...

Scene: The Inn. The Students enter and call for their favorite waitress, Kathie.

To the inn we're marching,
For our throats are parching.
Under fruit-trees arching,
In the month of May...
Oh, there's no good fellow,
When he's feeling mellow,
To the beer so yellow
Will say: "Nay."
All in step we're swinging,
While we join in singing
With our voices ringing
In a merry rhyme.
There is joy abounding
In our song resounding
While our steins are pounding
All in time.

Kathie! Kathie!
K-K-K-K-K-K-Kathie!

Kathie enters and sings, "Come Boys, Let's All Be Gay, Boys." For reasons too obvious to mention, in contemporary productions this becomes, "Come Boys, Live For Today, Boys."