Favorite Sondheim Intricate Rhyming Lyrics- Page 2

[LightMyCandle125]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 9:57pm

"when a person's personality is personable, he shouldn't oughta sit like a lump...it's harder than a matador coercin' a bull, to try to get you offa your rump"
-You Could Drive a Person Crazy - COMPANY

oh bobbybaby! i thought of this one before i even openned the post. it's one of my favorites!

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 10:51am

You folks have brought back some delightful Sondheim memories. Please keep them coming! I love this thread.

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 11:02pm

surely the many Sondheimites on this Board have more favorite intricate Sondheim lyrics. Please....post some more.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 11:06pm

Have you explored the town?
It is remote isn't it?
And provincial, don't you think?
And everything so brown!
The streets, the trees, the rivers even
Though there are some lovely gardens.
Oh, I could show you gardens!

[matthius202]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 11:09pm

"Everyone tells tiny lies...what's important really is the SIZE! Only three more tries and we'll have our prize..when the end's in sight you'll realize..when the end is right, it justfies the bean!!"

"Princes wait there in the world it's true...princes yes but wolves and humans too."

So they're not intricate but I love them..and so many more.

[matthius202]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 11:12pm

"Don't take away the baby they shreaked and screamed. But I did and I hid her where she'll never be reached. Your mother cried, your father died and for extra measure, I admit it was a pleasure. I said, sorry I'm still not molified and I laid a little spell on them. Poo..you too son. That your family tree would always be a barren one. (laughter). So there's no more fuss and there's no more scenes..and my garden thrives. You should see my nectarines. But I'm telling you the same I tell kings and queens. Don't ever never ever mess around with my greens. Especially the beans."
Whew.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/19/05 at 11:13pm

Frogs!
We're the frogs!
The adorable frogs!
Not your hoity-toity intellectuals,
Not your hippy-dippy homosexuals
Just your easy going, simple,
Warm hearted, cold blooded
Frogs
Of the pond
And the fronds we never go beyond.

[pab]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:33am

By the sea, in our nest,
We could share our kippers
With the odd paying guest
From the weekend trippers,
Have a nice sunny suite
For the guest to rest in —
Now and then, you could do the guest in —
By the sea.
Married nice and proper,
By the sea —
Bring along your chopper

[adamized88]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 1:30am

"i'll sit on his knee
get to know him intimately..."
--Forum

pretty much all of "Impossible" from Forum
SENEX
He's a handsome lad of twenty,
I'm thirty-nine . . .
It's possible!

HERO
Older men know so much more . . .

SENEX
in a way, I'm forty-four . . .

HERO
Next to him, I'll be a bore . . .

SENEX
All right fifty!

HERO
Then again, he is my father,
I ought to trust,
Impossible!

SENEX
Then again, with love at my age,
Sometimes it's just
Impossible!

[dry2olives]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:14pm

Such lovely Blue Danube-y music
How can you be still? -- Do I Hear a Waltz?

And, though not exactly intricate, one of my favorites from the same show:

The shiny stuff is tomatoes
The salad lies in a group
The curly stuff is potatoes
The stuff that moves is soup
Anything that is white is sweet
Anything that is brown is meat
Anything that is gray, don't eat

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:49pm

We'll never make our fortune
Just by sittin' on the porch n'
Looking wistful,
When there are nuggets by the fistful...
Gold from BOUNCE


Everyone hates me yes, yes
Being the mayoress, yes
All of the peasants throw rocks in my presence
Which causes me nervous distress, yes
Me and My Town from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE


OMG I LOOOVE THIS MAN!!!!

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 1:53pm

Gosh I loooooooooove this thread.......thanks so much folks.................you are bringing lots of joy into my household by refreshing us with some amazing Sondheim lyrics...........

Thanks so much.........Please keep em coming!

[mallardo]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 2:47pm

You gotta look messy
Not saucy
Less dressy
More bossy
Be mussy
Not glossy

Too fussy

Too Fosse

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 2:57pm

What More Do I Need?

Once I hated this city
Now it can't get me down
Slushy, humid and gritty
What a pretty town

What, thought I, could be duller
More depressing, less gay?
Now my favorite color
Is gray

A wall of rain as it turns to sleet
The lack of sun on a one-way street
I love the grime all the time
And what more do I need?

My window pane has a lovely view
An inch of sky and a flay or two
Why, I can see half a tree
and what more do I need?

Etc,etc...

One of Sondheim's best, in my opinion, yet hardly known.
A GREAT audition song for females with a Liz Callaway-esque voice.

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:12pm

As she sits
At the Ritz
With her splits of Mumms,
She starts to pine
For a stein
With her village chums.
But with a Schlitz
In her mitts
Down at Fitzroy's bar,
She dreams of the Ritz, oh,
It's so
Schizo.

-"Uptown, Downtown" (cut from FOLLIES, now part of MARRY ME A LITTLE

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:19pm

There's Something About a War
A GREAT song. Too bad it was cut.
I had to include the whole song 'cause its all hysterical.

I don't know how to say it but
There's something about a war
Mere words cannot convey it but
There's something about a war
It's noisy and its crowded
And you have to stand in line
But there's something about a war
That's divine

You march until your bleary but
There's something about a war
The company is dreary but
There's something about a war
Your fungernails get broken
and the food is often vile
Still there's something about a war
Makes you smile

The rain may rust your armor
Your straps may be too tight
But decapitate a farmer and your heart feels light
But there's something about a war
There's somethinga war
There's someting about a war
That makes this little old world all right

Oh, its tread, tread tread
Through the mud, mud, mud
And its shed, shed, shed
All the blood, blood, ugh
There's something about a war

Oh its plunge, plunge, plunge
Through the dust, dust, dust
And its lunge, lunge, lunge
And its thrust, thrust, ughhh
There's something about a war

You know it isnt massacres
And luaghter all day long
Still there's something about a war
Like a song

A warriors' work is never done
He never can take a rest
There's a land too overrun
And people to be opressed

There's always a town to pillage
And a city to be laid waste
There's always a little village
Entirely to be erased
And centinels to sack, of course
And temples to attack, of course
And children to annihilate
Priestesses to violate
Houses to destroy-HEY!
Women to enjoy-HEY!
Statues to deface-HEY!
Others to debase-HEY!
Virgins to assualt-HEY!
HALT!
HEY!!!

It's hurry, hurry, hurry
But there's something about a war
It's worry after worry
But there's something about a war
It isn't all the drama and heroics it may seem
But there's something about a war
That's a scream

Ther'e never time for reading
But there's something about a war
And elephants keep breeding
But there's something about a war
You frequently feel lonely when the enemy has gone
Still there's something about a war
That goes on
And on
And on

You sulk when someone's suing
For temporary truce
Then another war starts brewing
And soon breaks loose
There's something about a war
Something about a war
Something about a war

it isn't just the glory
Or the gorier details that cause a warrior to smirk
Its the knowledge that you'll never be out of work

Updated On: 2/20/05 at 03:19 PM

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/20/05 at 4:13pm

He's only a boy.
Why does he think he loves me?
Maybe he loves what I can do for him.
Maybe he thinks that I'll come through for him.
Maybe the moon is cheese.
And yet maybe
Maybe Something real is happening here
But baby,
You're a baby
And the man I'm married to needs me near
Okay, the moon is cheese!
And I love the guy I shouldn't,
And I don't the one I should
Ah, but love is blind
And I go for the kind that I finally find
Is no good!
It started out like a song
It started quiet and slow
With no surprise
And then one morning I woke to realize
We had a good thing going.
It's not that nothing went wrong...
-Gussie's Act Two Opening (Merrily We Roll Along)

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:08pm

i love hearing this stuff, you have intro'd me to some lyrics I have never heard before....Thanks so very much and please keep em coming!

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 2/21/05 at 2:16pm

I don't think there's anything better than:

Why did you do it, Johnny?
Throw it all away?
Why did you do it, boy
Not just destroy
The pride and joy
Of Illinois
But all the USA?

from Assassins, as well as:

I say, "Listen you runt,
You're not pulling this stunt
No gentleman pushes his way to the front"
I say, "Move to the back"
Which he does with a grunt
Which is how I saved Roosevelt!

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:24pm

keatonbynumber, i love it! thanks!

[theladyofshalott]

Posted: 2/25/05 at 8:14pm

"Lovely bit of clark."

"Maybe for a lark."

"Then again there's sweep if you want it cheap and you like it dark."

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 7:27am

I just love this thread

By the way: Mallardo, what are the lines from that you quoted (the "too Fosse" bit)? I don' recall having heard them before.

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 11:47am

Mallardo, where is the Sondheim lyric you mention from? I am not familiar with it.

I love these lyrics. Thanks again friends!! Please keep em coming. :)

[Jon]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 1:54pm

Mallardo's lyric is "Dress Big" from THE FROGS

Her's an oldie but a goodie:

My father is a bastard, my ma's an S.O.B.
My grandpa's always plastered, my grandma pushes tea
My sister wears a moustache, my brother wears a dress
Leapin' lizards, that's why I'm a mess!

[M J R]

Posted: 2/26/05 at 2:29pm

1)
Life is often so unpleasant
You must know that as a peasant
Best to take the moment present
As a present for the moment.

2)
It's your father's fault
that the curse got placed
and the place got cursed in the first place!

love it!