Re: G & S revisited, for fun

Kitty, it's from "The Pirates of Penzance." See

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/html/p13.html

I think it helps to open the MIDI file in a separate window, so it can play
while you read the lyrics. I'm not mad for the harp and oboe arrangement,
but you'll get the idea.
Maria


> 
> 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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