Re: G & S revisited, for fun

Gilbert and Sullivan!

DF

Kitty wrote:

> Margaret,
> I've been puzzling over the poem you sent - it reminds me of something.  Could
> it have been also put to music at some time?  For some reason The Lumberjack
> Song comes to mind.
> Kitty
>
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:18:12 -0600 cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com> wrote:
>
> > Very good!
> > Didn't he mean Master Gardener???
> > Cathy
> > On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 10:29 AM,
> > Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> >
> > >> I am the very model of a modern major
> > gardener,
> > >> with every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> > partn-er.
> > >> I scrutinize the listings in the newest
> > nursery manuals
> > >> and thoroughly have trained myself in
> > handling of perennials.
> > >> I'm practiced in the use and care of half a
> > hundred garden tools,
> > >> I know the mixing ratios for all the
> > two-stroke motor fuels,
> > >> I highly value safety and I follow the most
> > stringent rules -
> > >> And I never fill my mower until well after
> > the engine cools!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> He never fills his mower until well after
> > the engine cools
> > >> he never fills his mower until well after
> > the engine cools
> > >> he never fills his mower until well after
> > the engine, engine cools!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I know my taxonomy from Abutilon to Zinnia;
> > >> I know a sickly yucca from a juvenile
> > dracinia;
> > >> With every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> > partn-er,
> > >> I am the very model of a modern major
> > gardener!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I sieze all opportunities for hunting
> > beetles Japanese,
> > >> and if I please, on bended knees, I greet
> > the eager honeybees.
> > >> Should aphids dare to venture there,
> > >> I'll spare no care toward their dispair,
> > >> but share my garden fair with any mantis
> > gallavanting there!
> > >> Of grafting, double-digging and deadheading
> > I know quite a bit.
> > >> Whatever you would care to name I'll wager I
> > have planted it.
> > >> To purchase fertilizer, I don't buy just any
> > brand of ... manure...
> > >> and I'm always careful with my speech and
> > you can count on that for
> > >> sure!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> He is always careful with his speech and you
> > can count on that for
> > >> sure,
> > >> he's always careful with his speech and you
> > can count on that for sure,
> > >> always careful with his speech
> > >> and you can count on that for, that for
> > sure!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Then I can re-create the hanging gardens of
> > old Babylon,
> > >> or grade a level lawn for you to put a
> > picnic table on.
> > >> With every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> > partn-er
> > >> I am the very model of a modern major
> > gardener!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> In fact when I know what is meant by
> > "chloroplast" and "cambium;"
> > >> When I can tell at sight mite infestation on
> > geranium;
> > >> When black spot, mildews, smuts, rust,
> > scorch and dodder I'm more wary
> > >> at,
> > >> and when I know precisely what is in Lasso
> > and Lariat,
> > >> then I can drape a table with the harvest's
> > flavor subtleties,
> > >> Or spread a bed of flowers making color for
> > your eye to see.
> > >> In short, when I can please the various
> > senses with such things as
> > >> these -
> > >> You'll say a better Major Garden-er has
> > never stained his knees!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> For I've applied my genius to the wond'rous
> > field of Botany
> > >> where I find fascination where most others
> > find monotony;
> > >> with every pest my enemy and every bloom my
> > partn-er,
> > >> I am the very model of a modern major
> > gardener!
> > >>
> > >> - - A
> > >
> > > Composed by Alex Silbajoris, re-sent with
> > permission
> > >
> > >
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