DOI Heft:
March 5, 1892
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17693#0118
March 5, 1892.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
109
POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG.
Great is the might of the Meaningless 1
Especially in a rattling refrain or a rousing
chorus. Big dram effects are always popular.
What wonder clever Miss Lottie Colmns's
" Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!" is all the rage?
"Her greatest creation" [vide advertise-
ments), Bung and danced with the utmost
n rve, has taken the town. Will it " mar its
Hit on some trick crepuscular,
Like smudge or smoke, and there you are !
They'll mouth, and call you "Master." So
You 're sure—in time—to be a go.
You will catch on, and sell, although
Your meaning not a soul may know,—
Chorus—Tra-la-la! "Boom" to-day!
[Ad libitum.
IV.
It' 1 Tumour is your little line,
use" to attach a meaning to it ? Let us try]:— ' Coherent sense you must resign,
No. YL —THAT'S TTOW AVE Cry, "Paradox alone 's
BOOM TO-DAY I divmo
/■^ g\ ^*n. L.\ mr had his manner,
L / C A M/.s is Mine! "
A Smart " mug-lumherer" one §1CN s | v'V Try strain and twist;
ir.
And crowds, who first stared like a stone,
Your " subtle genius " soon will own.
Chorus—Tra-la ! We "boom" to-day!
\_Ad nauseam.
v.
Is the Dramatic " hiz " preferred?
There you may " boom" it like a bird.
Turn on the Absolute-Absurd ;
By that strange tap the moh is stirred.
Be dismal, deathly, dirty, dim ;
Grovelling, ghastly, gruesome, grim,
Anything meaning morbid whim ; [rim .' "
Quidnuncs will cry, "What treuth ! what
Chorus—Tra-la-la! "Boom" to-day!
[As long as you like !
VL
must be Rw Jjm) \\N gnaw the dry bone
To-day, to " fetch " Rassiety; US \\ Of mirth till all the I Or would you even higher fly,
Not too strict, of swagger free, \ \ A marrow's gone ; | And found a " Cult" ? You 'ye but to try.
And as " fly " as " fly " can be. \ . That blend fools follow in full cry,
Kver pushing, ever bold, \ \^w3«8NE®**. ^ Meaninglessness plus Mvstery!
(Else one's left "out ..in the «A H*i 1^ S^S ' " A witch astride upon a broom,
cold") jiy ^ t/ r A bogie in a darkened room,
Thus Success you grasp, and hold. /' P€a .. ^ ^ s?~^s/ Nonsense and nubibustio gloom,—
And ma v sing, though Pecksniifs T? M/ k ' ?rX$$. - /-U / Mix them like witch-broth; they will
scoid- <;, rp&' ^mr' , "boom":
Chorus. ^y.t.f \\\g^W[ ^<u' Chorus—Tra-la! We "boom" to-day!
Tra-la! We " boom " to-day! X ! I /J y™SZS [Till you are tired of it.
That's how we "boom" to-dav ! ( ' ■* .4//jT W^k
Bra-va ! We " boom " to-day
Hoo-rah! We " boom" to-day! J/ Boom! Boom! 'Twill bring in cent.
[And so on, six times or more. fa /, //, f __ Ver cent.,
With that Big Drum, Advertisement.
Nonsense, with nous discreetly blent,
All want to "Boom." But don't be .-_.~\ WWX,^J,/^m^^%^ Finds the world cheated and content.
For modesty is all my eye. shy, ^ ^ /^JV^P5^ S ^SS> But "make your game" while yet
Shun all reserve, if you would try x" JfaW*m ; there's room,
For " paying" notoriety. [haste, ^MBMS^^^lF' For novel shapes of quackery. Doom
If you would" make your pile" in ;y^^^^T JR^X Awaits us in the outer gloom :
You must not bother about " taste." ^wW^ ty^^rVi&k fL v^T a,^ A day may come when Bosh won't
Every chance must be embraced, r___frrr^s/ '^jf^T > f& t/ftr "Boom"!
If you would sing when fairly "placed," L_ " '^j^ Chorus
Chorus—Tra-la! We " boom" to-day! ^ ^ <?Jm ^==EE=^-- m. i i (4, , j ,
[Orer and over again. .. M $Sj , - <°±7'
Tra-la! We '1 boom '' to-day!
in. \^ Ha-ha ! We " boom " to-day !
Art's a good game. 'Tis easier far " % .. - -~~' Tra-la ! We " boom" to-day !
Than 'twas of old to be a Star. [And so on till further orders.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.—Quoth one of the Baron's Assistants to his Chief, " Sir, those who love the personality, and venerate
the memory of Charles Dickens, will thank Miss Hogarth who has selected, Mr. Lawrence Hutton who has edited, and Osgood,
McIlvaine & Co. who publish, a series of letters addressed by Boz to Wilkie Collins. They bear date between the years 1851 and
1870, were found among Collins's papers after his death, and prove not the least
precious of his possessions. Foster's Life of Dickens v/iil undoubtedly remain the
medium through which the outer world shall know the great novelist." " True,"
interposes the Baron, "that
certainly is one way in which
admiration for the works of
the great novelist will be
foster'd among us. You
agree ? Of course you do
Proceed, sweet warbler, your
observations interest me
much." Whereupon the
warbler thus addressed con-
tinued. "But, Sir, we are
all conscious of a certain un-
pleasant taste those volumes
leave in the mouth. Some of
the incidents recorded, and
many of the letters, present
Dickens with undue promin-
ence in a possible phase of his
character, as aruthlesstrades-
man in literature and lectur-
ing, with some tendency to be
overbearing in his social re-
lations. In this little volume
of letters to his old familiar
friend we find him at his best,
whether as a worker in lite-
rature or as a critic of other
people's work."
Baron de Book-
Worus & Co.
nlfiflfllff 1 i>
ASSISTED EDUCATION.
" JOINT OCCUPATION."
{Suggested by Cook's Tourist in Egypt.)
VOL. en.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
109
POPULAR SONGS RE-SUNG.
Great is the might of the Meaningless 1
Especially in a rattling refrain or a rousing
chorus. Big dram effects are always popular.
What wonder clever Miss Lottie Colmns's
" Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!" is all the rage?
"Her greatest creation" [vide advertise-
ments), Bung and danced with the utmost
n rve, has taken the town. Will it " mar its
Hit on some trick crepuscular,
Like smudge or smoke, and there you are !
They'll mouth, and call you "Master." So
You 're sure—in time—to be a go.
You will catch on, and sell, although
Your meaning not a soul may know,—
Chorus—Tra-la-la! "Boom" to-day!
[Ad libitum.
IV.
It' 1 Tumour is your little line,
use" to attach a meaning to it ? Let us try]:— ' Coherent sense you must resign,
No. YL —THAT'S TTOW AVE Cry, "Paradox alone 's
BOOM TO-DAY I divmo
/■^ g\ ^*n. L.\ mr had his manner,
L / C A M/.s is Mine! "
A Smart " mug-lumherer" one §1CN s | v'V Try strain and twist;
ir.
And crowds, who first stared like a stone,
Your " subtle genius " soon will own.
Chorus—Tra-la ! We "boom" to-day!
\_Ad nauseam.
v.
Is the Dramatic " hiz " preferred?
There you may " boom" it like a bird.
Turn on the Absolute-Absurd ;
By that strange tap the moh is stirred.
Be dismal, deathly, dirty, dim ;
Grovelling, ghastly, gruesome, grim,
Anything meaning morbid whim ; [rim .' "
Quidnuncs will cry, "What treuth ! what
Chorus—Tra-la-la! "Boom" to-day!
[As long as you like !
VL
must be Rw Jjm) \\N gnaw the dry bone
To-day, to " fetch " Rassiety; US \\ Of mirth till all the I Or would you even higher fly,
Not too strict, of swagger free, \ \ A marrow's gone ; | And found a " Cult" ? You 'ye but to try.
And as " fly " as " fly " can be. \ . That blend fools follow in full cry,
Kver pushing, ever bold, \ \^w3«8NE®**. ^ Meaninglessness plus Mvstery!
(Else one's left "out ..in the «A H*i 1^ S^S ' " A witch astride upon a broom,
cold") jiy ^ t/ r A bogie in a darkened room,
Thus Success you grasp, and hold. /' P€a .. ^ ^ s?~^s/ Nonsense and nubibustio gloom,—
And ma v sing, though Pecksniifs T? M/ k ' ?rX$$. - /-U / Mix them like witch-broth; they will
scoid- <;, rp&' ^mr' , "boom":
Chorus. ^y.t.f \\\g^W[ ^<u' Chorus—Tra-la! We "boom" to-day!
Tra-la! We " boom " to-day! X ! I /J y™SZS [Till you are tired of it.
That's how we "boom" to-dav ! ( ' ■* .4//jT W^k
Bra-va ! We " boom " to-day
Hoo-rah! We " boom" to-day! J/ Boom! Boom! 'Twill bring in cent.
[And so on, six times or more. fa /, //, f __ Ver cent.,
With that Big Drum, Advertisement.
Nonsense, with nous discreetly blent,
All want to "Boom." But don't be .-_.~\ WWX,^J,/^m^^%^ Finds the world cheated and content.
For modesty is all my eye. shy, ^ ^ /^JV^P5^ S ^SS> But "make your game" while yet
Shun all reserve, if you would try x" JfaW*m ; there's room,
For " paying" notoriety. [haste, ^MBMS^^^lF' For novel shapes of quackery. Doom
If you would" make your pile" in ;y^^^^T JR^X Awaits us in the outer gloom :
You must not bother about " taste." ^wW^ ty^^rVi&k fL v^T a,^ A day may come when Bosh won't
Every chance must be embraced, r___frrr^s/ '^jf^T > f& t/ftr "Boom"!
If you would sing when fairly "placed," L_ " '^j^ Chorus
Chorus—Tra-la! We " boom" to-day! ^ ^ <?Jm ^==EE=^-- m. i i (4, , j ,
[Orer and over again. .. M $Sj , - <°±7'
Tra-la! We '1 boom '' to-day!
in. \^ Ha-ha ! We " boom " to-day !
Art's a good game. 'Tis easier far " % .. - -~~' Tra-la ! We " boom" to-day !
Than 'twas of old to be a Star. [And so on till further orders.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.—Quoth one of the Baron's Assistants to his Chief, " Sir, those who love the personality, and venerate
the memory of Charles Dickens, will thank Miss Hogarth who has selected, Mr. Lawrence Hutton who has edited, and Osgood,
McIlvaine & Co. who publish, a series of letters addressed by Boz to Wilkie Collins. They bear date between the years 1851 and
1870, were found among Collins's papers after his death, and prove not the least
precious of his possessions. Foster's Life of Dickens v/iil undoubtedly remain the
medium through which the outer world shall know the great novelist." " True,"
interposes the Baron, "that
certainly is one way in which
admiration for the works of
the great novelist will be
foster'd among us. You
agree ? Of course you do
Proceed, sweet warbler, your
observations interest me
much." Whereupon the
warbler thus addressed con-
tinued. "But, Sir, we are
all conscious of a certain un-
pleasant taste those volumes
leave in the mouth. Some of
the incidents recorded, and
many of the letters, present
Dickens with undue promin-
ence in a possible phase of his
character, as aruthlesstrades-
man in literature and lectur-
ing, with some tendency to be
overbearing in his social re-
lations. In this little volume
of letters to his old familiar
friend we find him at his best,
whether as a worker in lite-
rature or as a critic of other
people's work."
Baron de Book-
Worus & Co.
nlfiflfllff 1 i>
ASSISTED EDUCATION.
" JOINT OCCUPATION."
{Suggested by Cook's Tourist in Egypt.)
VOL. en.