pick a) b) or c)
1 - first line of “Send in the Clowns”
a) Isn’t it rich, my faulty air
b) Isn’t it rich, aren’t we queer
c) Isn’t it rich, I feel a pair
2 - first line of second verse of “Some Enchanted Evening”
a) Some Enchanted Evening, you may see her crossing
b) Some Enchanted Evening, when you find her laughing
c) Some Enchanted Evening, you may hear her crapping
3 - first line of second verse of “Surrey with the Fringe”
a) Watch that horse and see how it stutters
b) Nosey pukes will step in the gutter
c) Watch that fringe and slip on the butter
4 - Last verse of “What I Did For Love”
a) Kiss today goodbye, and point my way tomorrow
b) Kiss today bye bye, the sweetness that I borrow
c) Kiss the way goodbye, and point me toward the sorrow
5 - first line of second verse of “Cabaret”
a) No use in sitting alone with a broom
b) Put down the kitten, the duck and the groom
c) No use forbidding the book in the tomb
6 - first line of second verse of “My Favorite Things”
a) Cream collared Coneys and warm woolen kittens
b) Boys in white dresses and crisp satin strudles
c) Girls in white dresses and new spatzen lashes
All are somewhat incorrect……but all were heard, simultaneously no less, from patrons at the piano bar during the “Broadway Singalong with Steve” a few nights ago. To make matters worse-- there were other tunes I tried where I myself wasn’t certain about the lyric, but I tried them anyway -- unrealistically thinking that the requesting patron(s) would know all the lyrics and cover for me. Which He Did Not….. and I wound up singing things that were just as inane as the above lyrics.
Broadway tunes are wordy, yet people request them, without any intention or ability to sing correct lyrics. So the Broadway Singalong will be seriously trimmed down to Tunes That I Absolutely Know All the Words To.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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2 comments:
If I only sang tunes that I knew ALL the lyrics to, "Happy Birthday" would be the only song I'd be able to sing!!! (LOL)
Those were funny! You could fill one of your sets with "Broadway-I Don't Know the Words, But Could You Do It Anyway?" songs. You could give out a prize for the person who faked his way through the most lyrics.
Dawn
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