No. 22 - Chorus - "The Show, the Show"

from "The Shop Girl"
Music by Ivan Caryll
Words by H. J. W. Dam and Adrian Ross
Sequenced by Colin Johnson
All Rights Reserved

By Ivan Caryll
Generated by NoteWorthy Composer

[Chorus:] The show, the show, the show, the show,
To see the show we all will go;
The play begins in a minute or so,
To see the show we all will go;
And truthfully the Richardson Co.
Will tell a tale impassioned.
The play begins in a minute or so,
Come and see the show, the show,
The show, the show, the show, the show,
To see the show we all will go;
The play begins in a minute or so,
To see the show we all will go!
[Showman: (recit.)] Now, walk up, walk up, ladies and gentlemen,
And fill our booth until it stretches,
You will see lovers united, greyheaded
Fathers seeking for erring daughters,
And poetical justice wreak'd upon melodramatic wretches.
In fact, ev'ry species of drama-
Comic, tragic, tragicomic, comic tragic variety show;
Opera bouffe, Opera spoof and East Lynne all compress'd,
After the manner associated with the name of the
late Lamented Richardson into ten minute sketches.
Here's our show and all that's in it,
Dramas at an act per minute, tragic or ironic,
Here's your best of plot and passion
Concentrated in a fashion-
Known as Richardsonic Shakespeare,
Old and very mellow,
Hamlet blended with Othello,
And Macbeth and "As You Like It," which was never seen before.
Then an awful murder follows,
and Maria Martin wallows,
As she paints the Red Barn redder with illimitable gore.
Ah! So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show.
[Chorus:] So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show.
[Showman:] With a show so very moral
nobody will care to quarrel,
Nobody who's seen us!
There is not a Tableau topic
to offend the philanthropic-
With a girl as Venus!
And the skirts traditionally
worn by ladies of the ballet
We have banish'd altogether
as intolerably scant;
On the Promenade improper
we have sternly put a stopper,
And the only tune permitted
is the Ormistonian Chant! Ah!
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show.
[Chorus:] So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show, the show.

[Showman:] And we hope to make a fixture
of a new dramatic mixture,
Tragical and merry;
Heroines of style audacious,
morbid and Can Tanqueray-cious,
Very risky, very!
Dancing Girls in dresses scanty,
Christopher and Charley's Auntie,
All the Newest Boys and Women
ever sung of by the bards;
Then at last you won't refuse an
instance of Rebellious Susan,
Gambled for by Derby Winner
with a pack of Fatal Cards! Ah!
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see our home of harmless mirth,
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show.
[Chorus:] So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This is the greatest show on earth.
So mind and book an inside berth,
To see the greatest show on earth.
This Hy! Hy! Hy! Hy! come and see the show, the show.

Karaoke version by Colin Johnson

No. 22 - Chorus
Soft karaoke
Words
Showman
Sopranos
Contraltos
Tenors
Basses
Right Hand
Left Hand