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In response to a request for information, here's what
I learned. I included several repeats to show the
variety of ways people came up with the answers. It
was great fun to read all the comments, and my friend
was astonished at the quality and quantity of the
replies. Thanks again to all who took the time to
answer. The most interesting thing: Three different
attributions for the grammar poem.
I'm not experienced at posting HITS. I hope this
works. and I apologize if it seems messy. ;-)
Hints on pronunciation for foreigners
> George Bernard Shaw
>
> I take it you already know
> of tough and bough and cough and dough.
> Others may stumble, but not you,
> On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
> Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
> To learn of less familiar traps.
>
> Beware of heard, a dreadful word
> That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
> And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
> For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
> Watch out for meat and great and threat.
> They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
>
> A moth is not a moth in mother,
> Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
> And here is not a match for there,
> Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
> And then there's dose and rose and lose
> Just look them up--and goose and choose.
> And cork and work and card and ward.
> And font and front and word and sword.
> And do and go, then thwart and cart.
> Come, come I've hardly made a start.
>
> A dreadful language? Man alive,
> I'd mastered it when I was five!
>
Tea for Two is by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar.
This comes from a
piano music book I have.
Marian, Madam Librarian is from the Music Man.
And some ideas on how to find lyrics(I am familiar
with the other songs
you mentioned, but don't have the info)
Did you check LM_NET archives. In the past we have
been given all
sorts of sites for song lyrics.
A good music store! When we were writing a medley for
my folks'
anniversary we went to a good sheet music store in
town. Besides all of the books
of lyrics and music, they had a computer where we
could punch in what we
wanted and it would print out the sheet music!
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****I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Words: Joe Young
Music: Fred E. Ahlert
copyright 1935 Warock Corp. and Fred Ahlert Music
Corp.
(per Reader's Digest Treasure of Best Loved Songs: 114
All-Time Family Favorites/copyright 1972)
****Tea for Two
Words: Irving Caesar
Music: Vincent Youmans
copyright MCMXXIV by Harms, Inc.; Copyright renewed.
(per Family Songbook: Reader's Digest/coyright 1969)
Love this war-time tune...
****It's Been a Long, Long Time
Words: Sammy Cahn
Music: Jule Styne
Copyright 1945 Morley Music Co.
copyright renewed 1973 Morley Music Co. International
copyright secured. All rights reserved.
(per Reader's Digest Popular Songs That Will Live
Forever/copyright 1982)
"Tea for Two" (I found this one in "Reader's Digest
Family Songbook."
New
York: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1969,
p.98-99.)
Words by Irving Caesar music by Vincent
Youmans
Picture you upon my knee,
Just Tea for Two and two for tea,
Just me for you and you for me alone.
Nobody near us to see us or hear us,
No friends or relations on weekend vacations,
We won't have it known, dear, that we own a telephone,
dear.
Day will break and you'll awake
And start to bake a sugar cake
For me to take for all the boys to see.
We will raise a family,
A boy for you,
A girl for me,
Oh can't you see how happy we would be?
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" (found this one in
"Reader's Digest
Popular
Songs That Will Live Forever." New York: Reader's
Digest Association,
Inc.,
1982, p.148-149.) In fine print at the bottom of the
page, it reads:
"Copyright 1945 Morley Music Co. Copyright remewed
1973 Morley Music
Co.
International Copyright secured. All rights reserved.
Used by
permission."
Words by Sammy Cahn Music by Jule Styne
Just kiss me once, then kiss me twice,
Then kiss me once again;
It's been a long, long time.
Haven't felt like this, my dear, since can't remember
when;
It's been a long, long time.
You'll never know how many dreams I dreamed about you,
Or just how empty they all seemed without you.
So, kiss me once, then kiss me twice,
Then kiss me once again;
It's been a long, long time.
It's been a long, long time.
"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"
Words by Joe Young Music by Fred E. Ahlert
(I found this one in "Reader's Digest Treasury of Best
Loved Songs."
New
York: Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1972,
p.18-19.) At the bottom
of
the page in small print it says: "c. 1935 Warock
Corp. and Fred Ahlert
Music Corp."
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
And make believe it came from you.
I'm gonna write words, oh, so sweet,
They're gonna knock me off my feet.
A lot of kisses on the bottom,
I'll be glad I got 'em,
I'm gonna smile and say, "I hope you're feeling
better"
And close "with love" the way you do.
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
And make believe it came from you.
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In case you haven't already received a reply from this
wonderful
group... The following site has the lyrics for all of
the songs you
requested except "Marian the Librarian." Type in the
url and then click
on "main index." You can find the songs by the title.
Hope this helps!
Lyrics World---
www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/summer.html
Tea for Two
Music by Vincent Youmans
Lyrics by Irving Caesar
from musical "No, No, Nanette," 1925.
"I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a
Letter"
Writer(s): Ahlert/Young
from: http://www.vex.net/~buff/sinatr
a/cgi/arch.cgi/I'm_Going_to_Sit_Right_Down_and_Write_Myself_a_Letter
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>"Marian the Librarian"
Music Man
Original Soundtrack
To listen to sound clips from this album:
Real Audio Sound Clips
Score By: Meredith Willson
from:
http://imusic.com/soundtracks/music/musicman.html
>"Tea for Two"
Vincent Youmans (m) - Irving Ceasar (w)
from: http://persweb.direct.ca/fstringe/oz/p320.html#Y
from: http://www.cosmoweb.net/~foosie/julestyn.htm
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ON THE TOWN(1949)
Leonard Bernstein & Roger Edens <----
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra
from:
http://www2.ice.usp.ac.jp/wklinger/music/onthetown.html
All of these were found using AltaVista search engine.
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My mother has a collection of early writings by Dr.
Seuss, entitled
_The
Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough_ .
But, here's what you want (I pasted your line into the
search box using
Dogpile) Good luck with the rest!
(Text of poem appears elswhere in this HIT)
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"Marian the Librarian" is from The Music Man by
Meredith
Wilson, 1957.
"New York, New York" is from On the Town;
music by Leonard
Bernstein; lyrics by Comden and Green, 1944.
"Tea for Two" is from No, No, Nanette by
Vincent Youmans;
lyrics
by Irving Caesar, 1926.
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Altavista is the place to go when searching lyrics
(other than
the main lyrics websites). This is what I found right
away:
I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/i/im_gonna_sit_right_down_and_write_down_and_write_myself_a_letter.txt
Tea for Two
http://www.bol.net/overseer5/tea.html
It's Been a Long, Long Time
http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/i/its_been_a_long_long_time.txt
New York New York
http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/nyny.htm
No trace of Marion the Librarian...
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"New York, New York, a helluva town, the Bronx is up
and the Battery's
down,
the people ride in a hole in the ground, New York New
York, what a
helluva town!"
Incidentally, the phrase "helluva" was changed to
"wonderful" for the
1949
Gene Kelly film.
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Kathy Hintz kmhintz@yahoo.com
Librarian, Etc hintz@vaxa.sunycgcc.edu
St. Patrick's Academy K-8
Catskill, NY 12414
"God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far
behind I will never die."
(Can't document a source except for a Signals Catalog T-shirt, 1993)
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