Lyr Add: My Book (H A Bayne/S L Lasell)

Subject: Lyr Add: MY BOOK (H A Bayne/S L Lasell)
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 03:13 AM

This is from the 1893

YALE GLEES. A COLLEC-
TION OF THE SONGS
Recently prepared for and used
by the YALE UNIVERSITY GLEE
CLUB.

Compiled and Edited by THOMAS G.

SHEPARD, Musical Director of the

Club since '73.

Published by THOMAS G. SHEPARD, New Haven, Conn., 1893.

pp. 24-25

1. I'm getting out a little book
   Of useful information,
   I hope when I've explain'd its aim,
   'Twill meet your approbation;
   For answers to a thousand things,
   You find you vainly look,
   In dictionary, or library,
   But the answer's in my book.
   
   The answer's in my book,
   You've only got to look,
   It's coming out in nineteen ten,
   The answer's in my book.
   


2. Sometimes a man will love two maids
   And this sis sad they say.
   For one he thinks he worships while
   The other is away;
   He loses weight, his face is thin,
   Despair is in his look,
   Until he finds which one to choose
   By glancing in my book.
   
   CHO. The answer's, etc.
   


3. We soon won't need a President
   Nor Cabinet, nor Senate,
   Republicans and Democrats
   Alike will not be in it;
   The government will perfect be
   Whichever way you look,
   And everyone will do just right
   Because he reads my book.
   
   CHO. The answer's, etc.
   


4. In short, 'twill be a wondrous work
   To make the world go fairly,
   And everyone shall honest be
   And treat his neighbor squarely;
   We all will live in quiet ease,
   For joy no further look,
   But live content with what we find
   Within my little book.
   
   CHO. The answer's, etc.
   

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Book
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 03:14 AM

Oops, I forgot to add the authorship data:

Words by H. A. Bayne, '92
Music by S. L. Lasell, '92

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Book
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 10:22 AM

Is there a midi you can send me?

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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Book
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 02:00 PM

I'll make one this weekend for each of the songs I just posted lyrics for (the others being Down by the Riverside (not the spiritual) and The Man Who Has Plenty of Good Peanuts, for which I posted a LONG set of lyrics, but (un?)fortunately have only the music for the first, normal-length stanza). If I have time I may also post "Meerschaum Pipe" (incipit: "Oh, who will smoke my meerschaum pipe?").

Haruo

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Book
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 01:03 PM

You can see the song, including musical notation for voice and piano, at Google Books here: Yale Glees: A Collection of Songs Recently Prepared for and Used by the Yale University Glee Club by Thomas Griffin Shepard (New Haven: Thomas G. Shepard, 1893), page 24.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: My Book
From: Haruo
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 08:19 PM

Yep, that's the one. Now why I didn't find that when I searched I don't know.