Відео

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety; For your brain is on fire and the bedclothes conspire of your usual slumber to plunder you: First your counterpane goes, and uncovers your toes, and your sheet slips demurely from under you; Then the blanketing tickles, you feel like mixed pickles so terribly sharp is the pricking, And you're hot, and you're cross, and you tumble and toss till there's nothing 'twixt you and the ticking. Then the bedclothes all creep to the ground in a heap, and you pick 'em all up in a tangle; Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to remain at its usual angle! Well, you get some repose in the form of a doze, with hot eyeballs and head ever aching. But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams that you’d very much better be waking; For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, Which is something between a large bathing machine and a very small second-class carriage; And you're giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) to a party of friends and relations, They're a ravenous horde, and they all came on board at Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations. And bound on that journey you find your attorney (who started that morning from Devon); He's a bit undersized, and you don't feel surprised when he tells you he's only eleven. Well, you're driving like mad with this singular lad (by the by, the ship's now a four-wheeler), And you're playing round games, and he calls you bad names when you tell him that "ties pay the dealer"; But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand, and you find you're as cold as an icicle, In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle: And he and the crew are on bicycles too, which they've somehow or other invested in, And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a company he's interested in, It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices all goods from cough mixtures to cables (Which tickled the sailors), by treating retailers as though they were all vegetables: You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman (first take off his boots with a boot-tree), And his legs will take root, and his fingers will shoot, and they'll blossom and bud like a fruit-tree, From the greengrocer tree you get grapes and green pea, cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries, While the pastrycook plant cherry brandy will grant, apple puffs, and three corners, and Banburys, The shares are a penny, and ever so many are taken by Rothschild and Baring, And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake with a shudder despairing... You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, and no wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor, and you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins, and your flesh is a-creep, for your left leg's asleep, and you've cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose, and some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue, and a thirst that's intense, and a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover; But the darkness has passed, and it's daylight at last, and the night has been long ditto my song and thank goodness they're both of them over!

When you stumble out of bed and immediately put on your Lord Chancellor's robes

This is the longest of the G&S patter songs, and the most challenging.

applause! applause! applause! :} thanks

Todd Rundgren has fun with this: ua-cam.com/video/KcavSNzXAt4/v-deo.html

The rhythm and language blends so eloquently. Simply impressive!

I can still do the first four (?) stanzas (not the intro) after 40 years and I was only in the chorus

If this is what folk in Parliament experience when they're at home, no wonder the country's in such a mess!

Black people did not invent rap.

I love you Steve!!!

I'm here because Neil Gaiman wrote about this song in "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Sir, I'm hooked, trying to learn this song now...

Yep, I'm a proud nerd all right. I'm also the one everybody for decades..(I'm 67 now, BTW) in my building, and family... calls to settle bets about movie lines, song titles, lyrics, etc. It's really quite a social asset..being a nerd I mean. You should swap that pompous attitude for some nerdiness. Might do you good!

Rossini did patter songs in several of his operas. Barber of Seville (Figaro), Don Pasquale, etc.

"Patter" songs have come down to us via Gilbert and Sullivan, who did musical theater an eternal service by writing these, then having gifted, nimble-tongued actors perform them. I'm thinking also of "Ruddigore's" - It Really Doesn't Matter, done by a marvelous trio. I watched "Barnum", with Jim Dale on Broadway years ago, and as he started to sing "Barnum's Famous Museum".. ("quite a lotta Roman terra cotta..") I could hear Gilbert and Sullivan echoes - loud and clear. These are far from 'toss offs" in a show. They require serious skill, an actor friend of mine assures me. I love them!!!

Great song, not as great as their others but still well done. It is only fitting the "nightmare song" should mention the Rothschilds.

Excellent.

Top class performance. (Sir) John Reed of the "D'Oly" would be proud.

what the hell ....

Have you ever wondered how the captain and sailor in HMS Pinafore could be switched at birth when their 20 years apart in age? "Two On The Aisle's" Charles Gross & Leslie (Hoban) Blake find out when the enter the topsey turvey world of New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players founder and artistic director, Albert Bergeret. Go to Gross902

What W.S.Gilbert thought of the significance of dreams......maybe more accurate than Freud.....sometimes a dream is just a dream.

Awesome! Very clear, very expressive. I would love to know what this show's first audience thought of this piece!!

Awesome! Very clear, very expressive.

because of this commercial i actually went to see their showing of the mikado- so worth it too!

Awesome performance!

I love this song! Thank you. It's always been one of my favorites. That, and the one about the tomtit from The Mikado. Gilbert and Sullivan is always good fun.

A+++ This is an amazing performance!

whoever wrote that is a genius!

Yum.

Wonderful! Beautiful voice