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16 Sep 23 - 11:05 AM (#4181783) Subject: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu SING FOR YOUR SUPPER lyrics by Lorenz Hart music by Richard Rodgers Verse / Intro: Hawks and crows do lots of things But the canary only sings She is a courtesan on wings So I've heard. Eagles and storks are twice as strong All the canary knows is song But the canary gets along -- Gilded bird! Chorus: Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds always eat If their song is sweet to hear. Sing for your luncheon and you'll get dinner Dine with wine of choice If romance is in your voice. I heard from a wise canary Trilling makes a fellow willing So little swallow, swallow now Now is the time to Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds are not dumb They don't buy a crumb of bread, It's said, So sing and you'll be fed. Coda Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds are not dumbThey don't have to buy a crumb of bread A spool of thread Just sing instead You don't have to buy even a crumb of bread It's said You'll be fed, if you sing (scat singing) If you dance So sing, and you'll be fed! Copyright 1938 by Chappell and Company Copyright renewed from The Boys from Syracuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEgFqhD8-0 |
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16 Sep 23 - 11:05 AM (#4190302) Subject: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu SING FOR YOUR SUPPER lyrics by Lorenz Hart music by Richard Rodgers Verse / Intro: Hawks and crows do lots of things But the canary only sings She is a courtesan on wings So I've heard. Eagles and storks are twice as strong All the canary knows is song But the canary gets along -- Gilded bird! Chorus: Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds always eat If their song is sweet to hear. Sing for your luncheon and you'll get dinner Dine with wine of choice If romance is in your voice. I heard from a wise canary Trilling makes a fellow willing So little swallow, swallow now Now is the time to Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds are not dumb They don't buy a crumb of bread, It's said, So sing and you'll be fed. Coda Sing for your supper and you'll get breakfast Songbirds are not dumbThey don't have to buy a crumb of bread A spool of thread Just sing instead You don't have to buy even a crumb of bread It's said You'll be fed, if you sing (scat singing) If you dance So sing, and you'll be fed! Copyright 1938 by Chappell and Company Copyright renewed from The Boys from Syracuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEgFqhD8-0 |
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16 Sep 23 - 11:16 AM (#4190300) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu Shy, the book of memoirs by the late Mary Rodgers, daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, is being celebrated for dishing the dirt on everyone from Leonard Bernstein to Stephen Sondheim. It's a very opinionated book. I was stopped in my tracks by the opinion that Mary Rodgers volunteers about the song "Sing for your Supper". Here she is: "Sing for your Supper" is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart song from The Boys from Syracuse, full of bird images that double as filthy double-entendres: "So, little swallow, swallow now." -- page 213, chapter "Fair Game", Shy. On the previous page, the author writes of waking up to this realization: "... she doesn't have to have sex with someone just because they buy her a meal." As to the context in The Boys from Syracuse, here is what the website rodgersandhammerstein.com ventures to say: "In this swinging trio from The Boys from Syracuse, three neglected wives commiserate about the sweet song they must sing to keep their marriages afloat." These subtleties were lost on me when I saw a fully staged production of The Boys from Syracuse years ago. The show has some good tunes in it, not just this one but also "Falling in Love with Love." |
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16 Sep 23 - 11:16 AM (#4181784) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu Shy, the book of memoirs by the late Mary Rodgers, daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, is being celebrated for dishing the dirt on everyone from Leonard Bernstein to Stephen Sondheim. It's a very opinionated book. I was stopped in my tracks by the opinion that Mary Rodgers volunteers about the song "Sing for your Supper". Here she is: "Sing for your Supper" is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart song from The Boys from Syracuse, full of bird images that double as filthy double-entendres: "So, little swallow, swallow now." -- page 213, chapter "Fair Game", Shy. On the previous page, the author writes of waking up to this realization: "... she doesn't have to have sex with someone just because they buy her a meal." As to the context in The Boys from Syracuse, here is what the website rodgersandhammerstein.com ventures to say: "In this swinging trio from The Boys from Syracuse, three neglected wives commiserate about the sweet song they must sing to keep their marriages afloat." These subtleties were lost on me when I saw a fully staged production of The Boys from Syracuse years ago. The show has some good tunes in it, not just this one but also "Falling in Love with Love." |
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16 Sep 23 - 06:53 PM (#4181809) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu I forgot to mention that The Boys from Syracuse is loosely adapted from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors with two sets of long-lost twin brothers. |
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16 Sep 23 - 06:53 PM (#4190301) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu I forgot to mention that The Boys from Syracuse is loosely adapted from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors with two sets of long-lost twin brothers. |
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18 Sep 23 - 01:40 AM (#4181866) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: Joe Offer I knew a bit of that, but hadn't put it together to make sense of it. That's fascinating. Rodgers was good with Hammerstein, but he was better with Hart. |
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18 Sep 23 - 01:40 AM (#4190299) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: Joe Offer I knew a bit of that, but hadn't put it together to make sense of it. That's fascinating. Rodgers was good with Hammerstein, but he was better with Hart. |
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24 Sep 23 - 12:24 PM (#4182324) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu Yes, Rodgers' daughter Mary has some opinions on her father's trajectory of achievements. She points out that he was an alcoholic, a heavy drinker. Ironically, the word she uses for what happened to his talent over the years is "dried up." First with Hart, when Rodgers was young. Then Rodgers' mature years with Hammerstein. Then Hammerstein dies, and Rodgers' music seems to slowly die inside of him. Tragic, when you think about it. |
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24 Sep 23 - 12:24 PM (#4190303) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sing for your Supper From: keberoxu Yes, Rodgers' daughter Mary has some opinions on her father's trajectory of achievements. She points out that he was an alcoholic, a heavy drinker. Ironically, the word she uses for what happened to his talent over the years is "dried up." First with Hart, when Rodgers was young. Then Rodgers' mature years with Hammerstein. Then Hammerstein dies, and Rodgers' music seems to slowly die inside of him. Tragic, when you think about it. |