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Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
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Subject: PDQ Bach From: GUEST,NancAurelia Date: 10 May 01 - 01:24 PM OK, this isn't really folk music, but I just know that one of you will have the lyrics to that PDQ Bach round that goes... "Look... her... face could launch a thousand ships..." While the other voice goes "She's.. up... dressing, she'll be down in a minute." THANKS! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Mark Cohen Date: 10 May 01 - 06:40 PM Hmmm...I presume when you put it together it goes, "Look up her dress"? What a catch! Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PLEASE KIND SIR (P D Q Bach) From: GUEST,chanteyranger Date: 10 May 01 - 07:06 PM Please, kind sir, that portrait I see, If that's your daughter present her to me. Look ... her ... face could launch a thousand ships. Look ... her ... face could launch a thousand ships. Thousand ships, thousand ships, thousand ships.
Very well, it can be arranged, if you please. (My memory may not serve me correct on all of this, but I'm 90% sure that's it.) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Peter Kasin Date: 10 May 01 - 11:37 PM You got it, Mark Cohen. Not only that, but the line ends with "..could launch a thousand ships!" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Mark Cohen Date: 10 May 01 - 11:45 PM When I lived in Seattle, somebody taught me a catch that was popular with the SCA crowd (Society for Creative Anachronism...I know we have a few of them on the 'Cat): Hey, ho, cried the merry Dwarves ... ... It's off to war we ... are ... To strike our foes both blind and ... ... dumb Lots of fun to sing. Of course, one can substitute any collective noun... Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Musicman Date: 11 May 01 - 03:02 AM This is #2 from PDQ's "The Art of the Ground Round" (S.1.19/lb)(S stands for Schickele number).. for Three Baritones and Discontinuo. Unfortunately the music is available through Theodore presser Company, # 312-41055 (for some reason, i just happen to have two copies!) # 2 is entitled "Please Kind Sir", written for two parts and needs to be sung as written to have the proper effect of the music. From the music notes: The Art of the Ground Round is uniquely typical among PDQ's works especially in its use of the discontinuo. Most baroque pieces had a so-called continuo part, which sonsisted of a bass line with the chord symbols, to be played by a bass instrument and a keyboard; the left hand on the keyboard played the bass line and the right hand improvised on the basis of the chord symbols. PDQ Bach's problem was that toward the end of his life he got so fat that he couldn't reach the keyboard simultaneously with both hands. So he simply played the bass line and forgot about the improvising (which was the harder part anyway), or probably more often didn't play at all, leaving the bass line to the bass instrument and himself free to drink beer. Most of the rounds in The Art of the Ground Round are of atype fancied by certain sixteenth and seventeenth century English composers: they reveal, when sung together as a round, levels of meaning that are not apparent when the parts are sung individually. whether PCQ knew what he was doing, or whether the hidden meanings were accidental, is a moot point, as is almost everything he ever did. In fact, one of the many revolutionary aspects of this much and understandably neglected composer is that, years before the blossoming of romantic "atmosphere" record albums, PDQ Bach was writing moot music. Other rounds in the set include: Loving is as Easy; Jane, My Jane; Who, Oh Who; Golly, Golly, Oh; and Nellie Is A Nice Girl.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: GUEST,NancAurelia Date: 11 May 01 - 01:05 PM Thanks, everyone! I knew you'd have this one! Mark - You pegged me -- Yup, I'm a SCAtian. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: mousethief Date: 11 May 01 - 01:09 PM Sammy is a singer and a good one, too. Dooby-dooby-doo! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Peter Kasin Date: 12 May 01 - 02:03 AM Nellie is a nice girl,but (name?) is a HORRRible prude. Paul is a policeman, but Peter is a PIIIMply and rude young man! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Hollowfox Date: 12 May 01 - 09:52 AM You might want to look in a local music store (I ordered the sheet music for his Christmas carols that way). Then, too, there's the PDQ Bach homepage: http://www.presser.com/pdqbach.htm#Music. (the "#" and capital M are as I copied them from the website.) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Musicman Date: 12 May 01 - 03:52 PM Click here |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: GUEST,HopeflRomantc Date: 22 Mar 23 - 01:46 AM Nelly is a nice girl But Hannah is a hor- Rible prude. Paul is a policeman And Peter is a pimp- Ly and rude young man. Sammy is a singer and a good one too (Dooby dooby doo!) Show it to him once and he will sing it through "Dooby dooby, dooby dooby, dooby dooby doo!" He will do his duty and his duty is his dooby dooby doo! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: keberoxu Date: 26 Mar 23 - 02:01 PM If we got going with PDQ Back, we would have to include the lyrics to the Liebeslieder Polkas, a long choral set with lyrics like Farewell, ungrateful traitor Who is Sylvia, what is she Had we but world enough, and time It was a lover and his lass Come live with me and be my love Out upon it, I have loved Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Some of these lyrics are unchanged with wildly parodistic music; others have had the words altered somewhat. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach From: Donuel Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:44 PM I was fond of his symphonic works. |
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