Re: G & S revisited, for fun

Ooops, Maria, I should have read yours before responding.  Though I'm not
an avid musical buff I sort of recognize it now.  On the tv show, West
Wing, they did a big thing on PofP a yr or so ago.  Thanks for cluing me in!

Kitty


> [Original Message]
> From: Maria Olshin <marolsh@ptd.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 12/30/2002 4:24:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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