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The Flying Trapeze (1868)
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- A comic waltz song from the London music hall. Words and music by George Leybourne. Arranged by Alfred Lee. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co.
sung by sheet music singer, Fred Feild
piano according to the sheet music
1. Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn
Like an old coat, that is tattered and torn
Left on this wide world to fret and to mourn
Betrayed by a maid in her teens
The girl that I loved, she was handsome
I tried all I knew, her to please
But I could not please her one quarter so well
Like that man upon the Trapeze
Chorus:
He'd fly thro' the air with the greatest of ease
A daring young man on the flying Trapeze
His movements were graceful, all girls he could please
And my love he purloined away
2. This young man by name was "Signor Bona Slang"
Tall, big, and handsome as well made as Chang
Where'er he appeared, the hall loudly rang
With ovation from all people there
He'd smile from the bar on the people below
And one night he smiled on my love
She winked back at him, and she shouted "Bravo!"
As he hung by his nose up above
3. Her father and mother were both on my side
And very hard tried to make her my own bride
Her father he sighed, and her mother she cried
To see her throw herself away
'Twas all no avail, she went there every night
And would throw him boquets on the stage
Which caused him to meet her, how he ran me down
To tell you would take a whole page
4. One night I as ususal, went to her dear home
Found there her father and mother alone
I asked for my love, and soon they made known
To my horror that she'd run away
She'd packed up her box, and eloped in the night
With him with the greatest of ease
From two stories high, he had lowered her down
To the ground on his flying Trapeze
5. Some months after this I went to a Hall
Was greatly surprised to see on the wall
A bill in red letters, which did my heart gall
That she was appearing with him
He taught her gymnastics, and dressed her in tights
To help him to live at his ease
And made her assume a masculine name
And now she goes on the Trapeze
Chorus:
She floats through the air with the greatest of ease
You'd think her a man on the flying Trapeze
She does all the work, while he takes his ease
And that's what's become of my love
This charming song is an old favorite. It was probably written and composed by Alfred Lee. It was made famous by Joe Saunders (stage name George Leybourne), a mechanic and singer from the midlands of England. He sang it in the London music hall. It has a four-part harmony chorus.
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The original Mr. Steal your girl
my grandfather sang this to me and my little sister a few days before he died ♡
;-;
A Popeye Fleischer cartoon from the early 1930's brought me here.
Seriously I had no idea this song went all the way to the late 1860's.
Thank you for sharing it with us. :-)
Same
It's been two days since I found this, and I still can't believe this childhood favorite is about some guy being butthurt over a fickle teenage girl. Still love it though.
I feel you😂
I had no idea that this song was that old. I thought it was from the 1930s. In the 1934 movie It Happened One Night, all of the passengers and the driver sang this song on the bus. That made me think that it was a current, popular song at the time.
Sure enough! I try to attach a date to each song. Publishers made it easy to track a song's history in most cases. The date I give is the one on the sheet music I'm singing from.
Funny trivia: it wasn't always that way. I read that in the 1700s music rarely was dated. A seller either had a piece or they didn't. It is speculated that with no date shown it made everything in a catalog seem current. Thanks to early copyright laws, all publications were encouraged to include their date of origin. There is a little bit of undated sheet music throughout the 1800s. By 1900 virtually all United States music was being dated at the bottom of the first music page. Not so in all countries.
This thought gave me pause…In that scene everyone sings along because that was a song from their childhood, it was released when their parents were teenagers or even kids…weird.
Lots of songs popular in the 20s and 30s were modern renditions of much older tunes. Lots of songs from the 90s got this treatment.
I saw the same movie , thought it was pretty good .
@LarrySeesAsia Same. You stole my thunder. Every word of it. Their little dance on the bus was like the highlight of the movie for some people!
The movie "It happened one night" brought me here!!😀😃 They are all singing it on the bus so happy!!😉😉
I love this is makes me thing of the flying Grayson’s also a little of kermet the frog but in the best way does that make since
I have saw this music in a comic book that I brought
This sound makes me remember the flying Grayson's too lol
Nightwing actually sings this song in the comics
A friend named her newborn baby boy Grayson. I think this will become one of his lullabies.
@@fatimamustafa8779 ok which issue? Must find this...
Kermit has a nice bardic plainsong singing voice, which makes it easy to learn songs from him. Maybe that's just a Jim Henson/Sesame Street unintended consequence that worked out really well....
I remember this song from the Little Rascals. Crazy how this song was as old in the 30s as the 30s is to now in age
I remember too! Twice actually once by The International Silver String Submarine Band in the short Mike Fright and then Alfalfa sang it in another short called Clown Princes
I like the stories these old songs tell. So enjoyable.
Bro my man got cucked how's that enjoyable 😭
The man on the flying trapeze was otherwise known as Jules Leotard. He was an international star in the 1860s. He designed a one-piece suit to help execute his aerodynamic stunts. Now now put two and two together.
I don't believe in my 60 years that I ever heard the whole song , all I can say is Bully ! Bully ! ,,,,, and thanks for posting it , it's Capital.
Well, I'm glad you could hear the full version, sir/madaam. I have nothing but the utmost respect for songs that instill not only a strong message, but a smooth melody and rhythmic tone. Perhaps we can all learn from and enjoy these songs from the past and share them with our offspring so these timeless classics never become a distant memory or fevered dream.
Regards, a fellow millennial with a heart of passion.
Charles Dickens was living at home in Kent when this song was written !!!
It may be a popular circus song about the flying trapeze artist, but it’s also a very sad love story that might bring tears to one’s eyes and break hearts to those who either listen to it or sing it.💔😢😭
Since I was on grade 5 I have love this song and I can't believe they thought as the wrong tempo, incomplete lyrics... But still I love this song💕💓💓
Many, many thanks. ´tis a wonderful song. Elderly people knew life and its many ways.
So this is Cuphead's favorite song. Huh.
Nice voice. :-)
A kindred spirit...
The Cuphead Show is the only reason why I found this song oml-
Gotta say, Cup’s got an unexpected taste in music
This lad was the OG Mr. Steal-your-Girl
Maybe there was never a 'man' on the trapeze
I have Popeye the Sailor to thank for introducing me to this tune because one cartoon has him discovering a trapeze artist had lured Olive Oyl away from him. He wins her back, but I can't remember if he shuts down the circus or just sabotages the trapeze artist; also I can't remember if the artist was Bluto or somebody else.
Wait, so this is the story of how Dick Grayson's parents met?
They had this sung this song on the Waltons. Thank you so much!
... huh, what a strange song... very surreal, like someone said here...
I remember the Jibjab version of this song, you guys do such important work
So everyone who came to this video, is a Nightwing fan. OK lol
whos nightwing? lol Heard this song as a background song while the video revealed NASA's mistakes while they lied lmao
Gustav Mahler uses the main melody of this in his 9th symphony, in a minor key. 2nd movement. The mad circus music...
More waltzes for my dancing steampunk friends, please
I have a Melotone 78rpm record of this one but by a different artist (Dick Robertson and his Orchestra) and it’s split into 2 parts on both sides I really enjoy this song no matter who’s singing it.
Okay another song i remember. I think i missed my Century
Cuphead’s got good, if unexpected, taste in music
Tbh, I kinda understand why this is Cupheads favourite song
SAME
Dunno, I think she's the clear winner in this case.
Right? She gets a job she clearly enjoys, a lover who adores her enough to put himself in danger by helping her run away, and she doesn’t have to deal with some weird guy making constant advances on her whom her parents were basically trying to sell her to? Honey’s got it good. Proud of her, proud of her
Who's here from It Happened One Night?
Que ermoso
*hermoso
Found this from AC syndicate if anyone can find that version I can’t find it anywhere
Here because of Dick Grayson
A proto version of the surrealist music picked up by the Beatles a century later.
Who dislike this
Now, it's clear to see the teenager wasn't found of the person telling the story and was infatuated with the young man on the flying trapeze. We get it until here! However, I don't understand the ending: it's implied that gymnastics wasn't for women in the 19th century, which is weird, for people nowadays almost automatically associate gymnastics with femininity.
It's not a feminine thing because the girl now appears as a man, wearing a masculine name, and doing all the work while her new lover just takes her money? Basically enslaving her, while she transvestites herself?
God, I do adore this 19th century creativity. Paraphrasing someone here on the comments, "absolutely surreal".
No respectable woman would ever display physical strength in those days.
Thank you for posting all of these wonderful songs, Fred. I'm curious, why is it that you suspect that the song was written and composed by Alfred Lee rather than Leybourne who gets credit on the sheet music?
"Written" often means the lyrics.
Who wrote the other, more familiar melody?
You might be thinking of Burl Ives?
Like
The song is sad
its melancholy
Is there anywhere your songs are downloadable as an mp3?
Sure! There are lots of websites where you can download a UA-cam video as an mp3. Just do a Google search for clipconverter, flvto, etc.
I find myself with no sympathy for the singer. Dude should have realised he wasn't right for the person he loved and moved on; let her do what she wants. She doesn't belong to you.
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MELODY IS NICE, BUT ONLY AN IDIOT WILL SAY GIRL IS HANDSOME. BOYS ARE HANDSOME, GIRLS ARE PRETTY.
The words handsome and pretty didn't always mean quite what they mean now.
@@brunhilda180 ALRIGHT. JUST LIKE I SUPPOSED. TODAY THINGS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
It was obviously a different time. That's the beauty of language: it is in constant changing. That's why gender norms are, forgive my language, whack. They don't make sense, and simply cannot last. You see how gymnastics in 1867 was classified as a charming and masculine thing, while nowadays we associate it with women? Exactly.
back in the 1860's girls were considered "handsome" and flowers were "pretty"... oh how times have changed
Like the others in these replies have said, handsome wasn’t necessarily a masculine word back when this was written. Personally, I think it should be brought back as a gender neutral term. I mean, plenty of people have started describing men as pretty, beautiful or gorgeous, so why can’t a woman be handsome or dashing?
gay music
I thought too. But he meant to say that the man on the flying trapeze stole, not his love, but the girl that he loves.
It's Steal Your Girl music.
More so in the definition of the time if writing, than today