Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Princ
From: JJ
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:27 AM

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."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"
From: ard mhacha
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:21 PM

The Irish and UK catters will understand when I tell them this was Father Jack`s favourite song, too fecking true.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 02:16 PM

Guest, your ignorance of the score is showing-

TO eyes
TO lips

(Dorothy Donnelly wrote the words, Sigmund Romberg just wrote the music)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:41 PM

Are these what you want for the beginning of "Drink, Drink, Drink"?

Ein zwei drei vier (Ein zvai dry feer..is the pronunciation Deutsch)
Lift your stein and drink your beer
Ein zwei drei vier
Lift your stein and drink your beer

By the way, whoever wrote the first post, it isn't

"To eyes"..."To lips"....It's TWO eyes and TWO lips.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from "The Student Prince"
From: masato sakurai
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 09:36 PM

Mario Lanza - Drink Drink Drink is on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song from
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 08:50 PM

Does anyone have the complete lyrics to the intro to the Drinking Song that begin with:

To begin we're marching while our throats are parching under fruit trees arching in the month of May
For there's go good fellow when he's feeling mellow to the beer so mellow would say nay.

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Thanks.
**Mick Lane**

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 06:26 PM

We need another Sigmund Romberg. In notes accompanying a cd on Romberg music, Naxos printed the comment: "Sigmund Romberg was a colorful and gregarious character in that bygone era of show business when melodic content really counted."

Mario Lanza did not have the temperament for opera and tended to oversing, but his work in operettas and musicals was excellent.

Thanks for the song. It brings back memories for me too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:39 PM

Ah - but if you sing during the verses, you can only drink during the refrain!

Subtle, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:58 AM

foolestroupe - are your merry band related to dwarves by any chance? I detect a strong dwarven influence in the drinking song you posted. Compare it, for instance, to that old classic dwarf mining song:

Gold, GOLD, GOLD!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: GUEST,Nellie Clatt
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:43 AM

Well it's better than Mario feckin Lanza.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:31 AM

The Fooles Troupe Drinking Song

Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

(Refrain)


Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

(Refrain)


Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

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Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
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Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!
Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!

(Refrain)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 05:57 AM

Come Back mario Lanza - All is forgiven !! - Great stuff Chico

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 03:15 AM

Nice addition CHICO!!! Thank You!

Wonderful memories, of this song shared with my father. It may be "musical comedy" or "light opera" but it is full of all the robust good spirits of a Heidelberg beer hall.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: Lyr Add: Drinking Song
From: chico
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:44 AM

From Student Prince

  
  (D A,A,A; G/A D,D,D; G/A D,D;D G,G;G D,D;D A,A)
   D                                        A         7 
  Ein zwei drei vier, lift your stein and drink your beer!
  Ein zwei drei vier, lift your stein and drink your beer!
  
    D                                               A°                 A7
  Drink! Drink! Drink! To eyes that are bright as stars when they're shining on me
    D                                                          A
  Drink! Drink! Drink! To lips that are red and sweet as the fruit on the tree 
   A7                        D          A7    D 
  Here's a hope that those bright eyes will shine
   G     D   G     D   Bm         A
  Lovingly, longingly soon into mine
  
  C7         F             C7       F
  May those lips that are red and sweet
     D7         G      E7       A  (7)
  Tonight with joy my own lips meet
  
   G             D        A7    D
  Drink! Drink! Let the toast start!
   G         D        A7   D
  May young hearts never part!
   G              D
  Drink! Drink! Drink!
      G      Em   D       Em/E7          A7
  Let ev'ry true lover salute his sweetheart!
  
  Drink! Drink! Drink! To arms that are white and warm as a rose in the sun
  Drink! Drink! Drink! To hearts that will love one, only when I am the one
  Here's a hope that those soft arms will twine
  Tenderly, trustingly soon around mine
  
  All I ask is the right to see
  Those smiling eyes beguiling me -
  
  Drink! Drink! Let the toast start! May young hearts never part!
  Drink! Drink! Drink!
      G  D   Em6 D Em6  D A7  E9    A7   D     A       D
  Let ev'ry true lover salute his sweetheart! Let's drink!