Four Encore Songs

Song Cycle by Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953)

1. Tobacco
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean.
It’s the worst stuff I’ve ever seen.
I like it.

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2. A Flea and a Fly
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
A flea and a fly in a flue
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3. Come, Come, Said Tom's Father  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
"Come, come," said Tom's father , "at your time of life,
"There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake — 
"It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife." —
"Why, so it is, father , — whose wife shall I take?"

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Confirmed with Thomas Moore, Workes, Ernst Fleischer, 1826, page 576.


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4. Song of the Open Road

Language: English 
I think I will never see a billboard lovely as a tree
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Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, in:New Yorker, October 15, 1932, p.18


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