Poetry · 1890
Songs of a Savoyard
Gilbert's lyrics from the Savoy operas, lifted out of their scores and printed as verse. "The Modern Major-General" is here, and "The Policeman's Lot", "The House of Peers", "They'll None of 'Em be Missed", "The Heavy Dragoon", "The Disagreeable Man", "The Highly Respectable Gondolier", "The Working Monarch", "Braid the Raven Hair", "Is Life a Boon", "The Rover's Apology" and some sixty more — the patter songs, the sentimental numbers and the choruses, each standing on its own rhyme and metre without the music.
W. S. Gilbert published Songs of a Savoyard in 1890, with his own drawings, in the middle of the partnership with Arthur Sullivan and at the moment the two of them had fallen out badly over the cost of a carpet. The selection is his own, and it is a fair statement of which of his lyrics he thought would survive the tunes.
This Bibliomancer edition presents the songs complete.
Contents
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- The Englishman
- The Disagreeable Man
- The Coming by-and-by
- The Highly Respectable Gondolier
- The Fairy Queen’s Song
- Is Life a Boon
- The Modern Major-General
- The Heavy Dragoon
- Proper Pride
- The Policeman’s Lot
- The Baffled Grumbler
- The House of Peers
- A Merry Madrigal
- The Duke and the Duchess
- Eheu Fugaces—!
- They’ll None of ’em Be Missed
- Girl Graduates
- Braid the Raven Hair
- The Working Monarch
- The Ape and the Lady
- Only Roses
- The Rover’s Apology
- An Appeal
- The Reward of Merit
- The Magnet and the Churn
- The Family Fool
- Sans Souci
- A Recipe
- The Merryman and His Maid
- The Susceptible Chancellor
- When a Merry Maiden Marries
- The British Tar
- A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
- The Sorcerer’s Song
- The Fickle Breeze
- The First Lord’s Song
- Would You Know?
- Speculation
- Ah Me!
- The Duke of Plaza-Toro
- The Æsthete
- Said I to Myself, Said I
- Sorry Her Lot
- The Contemplative Sentry
- The Philosophic Pill
- Blue Blood
- The Judge’s Song
- When I First Put This Uniform on
- Solatium
- A Nightmare
- Don’t Forget!
- The Suicide’s Grave
- He and She
- The Mighty Must
- A Mirage
- The Ghosts’ High Noon
- The Humane Mikado
- Willow Waly!
- Life Is Lovely All the Year
- The Usher’s Charge
- The Great Oak Tree
- King Goodheart
- Sleep On!
- The Love-Sick Boy
- Poetry Everywhere
- He Loves!
- True Diffidence
- The Tangled Skein
- My Lady
- One Against the World
- Put a Penny in the Slot
- Good Little Girls
- Life
- Limited Liability
- Anglicised Utopia
- An English Girl
- A Manager’s Perplexities
- Out of Sorts
- How It’s Done
- A Classical Revival
- The Practical Joker
- The National Anthem
- Her Terms
- The Independent Bee
- The Disconcerted Tenor
- The Played-Out Humorist
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