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Lyr Req: PDQ Bach

10 May 01 - 01:24 PM (#459685)
Subject: PDQ Bach
From: GUEST,NancAurelia

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!


10 May 01 - 06:40 PM (#460012)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Mark Cohen

Hmmm...I presume when you put it together it goes, "Look up her dress"? What a catch!

Aloha,
Mark


10 May 01 - 07:06 PM (#460028)
Subject: Lyr Add: PLEASE KIND SIR (P D Q Bach)
From: GUEST,chanteyranger

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.
Sit you down. Make yourself at home
While she's ... up ... dressing. She’ll be down in a jiffy,
She’s ...up ... dressing. She’ll be down in a jiffy.
Jiffy, jiffy, jiffy.

(My memory may not serve me correct on all of this, but I'm 90% sure that's it.)

-chanteyranger

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 1-May-02.


10 May 01 - 11:37 PM (#460156)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Peter Kasin

You got it, Mark Cohen. Not only that, but the line ends with "..could launch a thousand ships!"


10 May 01 - 11:45 PM (#460161)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Mark Cohen

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


11 May 01 - 03:02 AM (#460249)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Musicman

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.


11 May 01 - 01:05 PM (#460542)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: GUEST,NancAurelia

Thanks, everyone! I knew you'd have this one!

Mark - You pegged me -- Yup, I'm a SCAtian.


11 May 01 - 01:09 PM (#460545)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: mousethief

Sammy is a singer and a good one, too. Dooby-dooby-doo!


12 May 01 - 02:03 AM (#460895)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Peter Kasin

Nellie is a nice girl,but (name?) is a HORRRible prude. Paul is a policeman, but Peter is a PIIIMply and rude young man!


12 May 01 - 09:52 AM (#460980)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Hollowfox

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.)


12 May 01 - 03:52 PM (#461087)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Musicman

Click here


22 Mar 23 - 01:46 AM (#4168231)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: GUEST,HopeflRomantc

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!


26 Mar 23 - 02:01 PM (#4168522)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: keberoxu

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.


26 Mar 23 - 09:44 PM (#4168559)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: PDQ Bach
From: Donuel

I was fond of his symphonic works.