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Thread #139176   Message #3192032
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Jul-11 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Compleat Works (from Martin Carthy?)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE COMPLEAT WORKS (Johnny Dankworth)
According to Allmusic.com, this song is on Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth's album "Collection" (1998). This is my transcription from the recording at YouTube:


THE COMPLEAT WORKS
Johnny Dankworth
As sung by Cleo Laine

Henry the Fourth, Part One. Cymbeline.
Henry the Fourth, Part Two. As You Like It.
Measure for Measure. The Winter's Tale.
Troilus and Cressida. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Merchant of Venice. Richard the Second.
The Taming of the Shrew.

Then there's Romeo and Julietta.
Thirty more to do.

Henry the Sixth, Part One. Pericles.
Henry the Sixth, Part Two. Coriolanus.
Henry the Eighth. Comedy of Errors.
Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. King Lear.
The Tempest. Twelfth Night. King John
and Othello.
'Bout Nothing Much Ado.

Then there's Antony and Cleopatra,
Cleo to you.

Henry the Sixth, Part Three and Macbeth.
Henry the Fifth. Merry Wives of Windsor.
Richard the Third. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
Titus Andronicus. The Rape of Lucrece.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Sonnets.
Venus [and] Adonis. A Lover's Complaint.
The Passionate Pilgrim. The Phoenix [and] the Turtle.

All of 'em in except two that ain't:
All's Well That Ends Well.
Love's Labours Lost.