The complete lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse

Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975.

Songs. Texts

The complete lyrics of P.G. Wodehouse / edited by Barry Day ; editorial consultant, Tony Ring.

Book

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

xxvii, 489 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003013116.html

Day, Barry.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-448) and index.

MISCELLANEOUS SONGS (1904-1915). My Grassy Corner Girl (Queen)
SERGEANT BRUE (1904) Put Me in My Little Cell
THE BEAUTY OF BATH (1906) Oh, Mr. Chamberlain! ; The Frolic of a Breeze ; Behind the Scenes; The Motor Car
MY DARLING (1907) To Live a Simple Life ; The Glow-Worm ; Calico
THE GAY GORDONS (1907) Now That My Ship's Come Home ; You, You, You
NUTS AND WINE (1914) The Fourth of June ; My Tango Maid ; The Music Hall Class ; I've Lost My Duck ; Don't Do Anything Until You Hear From Me ; Two to Tooting ; The Lady Journalist ; Not A Word ; Gaby ; Will You Sing This Glee With Me? ; Where Did You Get That Girl? ; The Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Barcarolle ; Havana Anna ; I'd Like to Like A Girl Like You ; Don't Put the Blame on London ; Oh, That Yankiana Rag ; Riding in a London Bus ; What Do You Mean, You Lost Your Dog? ; We're All Going Round to Father's ; We're Leaving England
THE PRINCESS PERIOD (1916-1918)
NINETY IN THE SHADE (1915) A Packet of Seeds
MISS SPRINGTIME (LITTLE MISS SPRINGTIME) (1916) Throw Me a Rose ; This is the Existence ; Cinderella (Once Upon a Time) ; My Castle in the Air ; Saturday Night (A Very Good Girl on Sunday) ; Melodrama Burlesque ; All Full of Talk
HAVE A HEART (1917) Shop ; I'm So Busy ; Have A Heart ; And I Am All Alone (I See You There) ; I'm Here, Little Girls, I'm Here ; Bright Lights ; The Road That Lies Before ; Finale Act I ; Samarkand ; Honeymoon Inn (Honeymoon Hotel) ; My Wife - My Man ; It's A Sure, Sure Sign ; You Said Something ; Peter Pan ; Napoleon ; Daisy ; Polly Believed in Preparedness ; They All Look Alike ; Can the Cabaret
OH, BOY! (1917) Let's Make a Night Of It ; You Never Knew About Me ; A Package of Seeds ; An Old-Fashioned Wife ; A Pal Like You (We're Going To Be Pals) ; Letter Song ; Till the Clouds Roll By ; Little Bit of Ribbon ; The First Day of May ; Finaletto ;Rolled Into One ; Oh, Daddy, Please ; Nesting Time in Flatbush ; Words Are Not Needed (Every Day) ; Flubby-Dub the Cave Man ; Be A Little Sunbeam ; Ain't It A Grand and Glorious Feeling! ; That's the Kind of Man I'd Like To Be (The Bachelor)
OH, JOY (1918) Rolled Into One ; Loving By Proxy ; Wedding Bells
LEAVE IT TO JANE (1917) Good Old Atwater (College Song) ; A Peach of a Life ; Wait Till Tomorrow ; Just You Watch My Step ; Leave It to Jane ; The Siren's Song ; There It Is Again (When Your Favourite Girl's Not There) ; Cleopatterer ; The Crickets Are Calling ; Football Song ; Sir Galahad ; The Sun Shines Brighter ; I'm Going to Find A Girl ; Why ; What I'm Longing to Say ; It's a Great Big Land ; I've Played For You ; Poor Prune ; I've Had My Share (I Don't Care)
KITTY DARLIN' (1917) A Health to Noah ; Dear Old Dublin ; The Land Where Dreams Come True
THE RIVIERA GIRL (1917) The Mountain Girl ; Sometimes I Feel Just Like Grandpa ; The Fall of Man ; There'll Never Be Another Girl Like Daisy ; Life's a Tale ; Finale - Act 1 ; Opening Chorus - Act II ; Just A Voice To Call Me Dear ; Half A Married Man ; Man, Man, Man ; A Little Bungalow in Quogue ; Will You Forget? ; Opening Chorus - Act III ; Why Can't They Hand It To Me? ; Gypsy, Bring Your Fiddle (The Lilt of a Gypsy Strain) ; Finale - Act III
MISS 1917 (1917) The Society Farmerettes ; Follow the Girl ; (We're) Crooks ; Peaches (Papa Would Persist in Picking Peaches) ; Tell Me All Your Troubles, Cutie ; A Dancing M.D. ; I'm the Old Man in the Moon ; The Land Where the Good Songs Go ; We Want to Laugh ; Who's Zoo in Girl Land ; The Clog Dance (The Low-Back'd Car) ; The Palm Beach Girl ;The Picture I Want To See ; Go, Little Boat (Assyrian Boat Song) ; Nurse, Nurse, Nurse ; Dear Old Stage Door ; The New York Girl ; All the Time For You (You're the Little Girl I've Looked So Long For)
OH, LADY! LADY!! (1918) I'm To Be Married Today ; Not Yet ; Do It Now ; Our Little Nest ; Do Look At Him ; Oh, Lady! Lady!! ; You Found Me and I Found You ; Finaletto ; Moon Song ; Waiting Around the Corner (Some Little Girl) ;

Little Ships Come Sailing Home ; Before I Met You ; Greenwich Village (Something in the Air) ; Wheatless Days (Simple Life) ; It's A Hard, Hard World For A Man ; ;Finale ; The Sun Starts To Shine Again ; Dear Old Prison Days ; You're Here and I'm Here ; Bill ; The Magic Melody ; When A Gent Was a Perfect Gent (Those Were The Days) ; Bring On The Girls ; Dancing Time ; You're Here and I'm Here (Alternative) --

SEE YOU LATER (1st Version) (1918) Opening Chorus ; A Healthy Life ; There Goes A Married Man ; Paris By Night ; Happily Married? Bah! ; Years and Years Ago ; But Its Meaning, Who Can Tell? ; Act I - Finale ; Cantata ; Young Man! ; You Whispered It (You-You-You!) ; Cochin China ; Dear Old Church Bell ; Annette ; Mother Paris ; Act II - Finale ; I'm Going To Settle Down ; Lovers' Quarrels
SEE YOU LATER (2nd Version) (1918) Opening Chorus ; I'm Going To Settle Down ; Keep Out of the Moon (I Never Knew) ; The Finest Thing In the Country (The Train That Leaves for Town) ; Act I - Finale: See You Later, Girls ; Young Man! ; Honeymoon Island ; I Never Knew! ; Nerves! ; Desert Island (Our Little Desert Island) ; It Doesn't Matter ; Love's A Very Funny Thing ; 'See You Later' Shimmy ; Anytime is Dancing Time (I Want To Dance) ; In Our Little Paradise (Paradise in Mo) ; Isn't It Wonderful!
THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN (1918) The Girl Behind the Gun ; Women Haven't Any Mercy On a Man ; There's Life in the Old Dog Yet ; Back to the Dear Old Trenches ; I've A System
LADIES, PLEASE! (?1917/1918) Buy! Buy! Buy! ; Ladies, Please! ; The Church 'Round the Corner (2 versions) ; There's Lots of Room for You ; It's Absolutely Grand (Isn't It Wonderful?) ; I Only Want One Girl ; A Year From Today ; I Mean To Say - What! What! What!
THE CANARY (1918) Thousands of Years Ago ; Julie and Her Johnnies ; That's What Men Are For
OH, MY DEAR! (1918) I Shall Be All Right Now ; I Wonder Whether I've Loved You All My Life ; Ask Dad ; City of Dreams ; Come Where Nature Calls ; Phoebe Snow ; Go, Little Boat (2 versions) ; You Never Know ; Try Again ; It Sort of Makes A Fellow Stop and Think ; Childhood Days ; I'd Ask No More ; If They Ever Parted Me From You ; Finale ; Isn't It Wonderful? ; The Land Where Journeys End ; What's the Use?
KISSING TIME (1919) Here's Another Godson, Girls ; Godmothers and Godsons ; A Happy Family ; Some Day Waiting Will End ; I Like It, I Like It ; I've Just Come Back From Paris ; Wouldn't You Like Us All to Help You? ; Oh, How Warm It Is Today ; Some Day, Never Forget ; There's a Light In Your Eyes ; That Ticking Taxi's Waiting at the Door
THE ROSE OF CHINA (1919) Sunrise Intermezzo ; Yale ; Bunny, Dear ; Tao Loved His Li (A Chinese Adam and Eve/The Legend of the Tea-Tree) ; College Spirit ; In Our Bungalow (Chinese Bungalow) ; Yesterday ; Down on the Banks of the Subway ; Love Is a Wonderful Feeling ; Broken Blossoms
THE LITTLE THING (1916-1920) When You Come Back ; Everything Looks Different in the Dark ; What'll I Do After That? ; Nero
SALLY (1920) You Can't Keep a Good Girl Down (Joan of Arc) ; The Schnitza-Kommisski (Where the Schnitz Flows Down to the Sea) ; Look for the Silver Lining
THE GOLDEN MOTH (1921) We've Had A Busy Day ; Fairy Prince (Prince Charming) ; Romance is Calling ; Soldiers' Entrance ; Lonely Soldier ; Round the Corner ; Dartmoor Days ; Dear Eyes That Shine (The Miniature) ; My Girl ; Nuts in May ; If I Ever Lost You ; The Island of Never-Mind-Where ; Finale Act III ; Give Me A Thought Now and Then
THE CABARET GIRL (1922) Chopin Ad Lib ; You Want the Best Seats, We Have 'Em ; Mr. Gravvins - Mr. Gripps ; First Rose of Summer ; Journey's End ; Whoop-de-oodle-do! ; Finaletto Act 1 ; My Little Place in the Country ; The Pergola Patrol ; Entrance - Act II ; Shimmy With Me ; Those Days Are Gone Forever (Long Years Ago) ; Looking All Over For You ; Nerves ; Finale - Act II ; London, Dear Old London ; Finale - Act III ; Oriental Dreams ; Dancing Time
THE BEAUTY PRIZE (1923) When You Take the Road With Me ; Scene II Opening Chorus - Now We Are Nearly Through ; Entrance Scene ; Honeymoon Isle ; I'm A Prize ; It's A Long, Long Day ; Joy Bells ; Finale - Act I ; Act II - Opening Chorus ; You'll Find Me Playing Mah-Jong ; You Can't Make Love By Wireless ; Non- Stop Dancing ; That's What I'd Do For The Girl I Love ; A Cottage in Kent ; Finale - Act 2 ; Meet Me Down on Main Street ;

Moon-Love
PAT (1924) Through the Fence ; Circus Day ; Pat's Going To Have Some Luck Today ; Julius Caesar ; Buy, Buy ; Covered Wagon ; Love's a Sort of Frenzy ; The Man in the Moon
SITTING PRETTY (1924) Is This Not a Lovely Spot? ; You Alone Would Do ; Worries ; Bongo on the Congo ; Mr. and Mrs. Rorer ; Omar Khayyam ; There Isn't One Girl ; A Year From Today ; Shufflin' Sam ; Finale - Act 1 ; Opening Act II ; Days Gone By ; All You Need Is a Girl ; Tulip Time in Sing-Sing (Dear Old-Fashioned Prison of Mine) ; On a Desert Island With You ; The Enchanted Train ; Shadow of the Moon ; Sitting Pretty ; Finale Ultimo ; Just You Wait
HEARTS AND DIAMONDS (1926) Act II - Finale
THE NIGHTINGALE (1927) Opening Chorus - West Point ; Breakfast in Bed ; March Song ; Tonight the World is Pleasure Bent ; Homeland (Enough is Enough) ; May Moon ; Two Little Ships (Journey's End) ; He Doesn't Know ; Finaletto Act 1 - Love's All That Matters ; May Moon (Repirse) ; Fairyland ; I Know My Love Is You (Love Like Yours Is Rare Indeed) ; Deep As the Ocean ; Love is Calling ; Santa Claus ; Josephine ; Once In September ; Nightingale ; Jenny Lind ; When I Met You
SHOWBOAT (1927) Bill
ROSALIE (1928) The Hussars March ; West Point Song ; Oh, Gee! Oh, Joy! ; Say So! ; Why Must We Always Be Dreaming? ; The King Can Do No Wrong
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1928) March of the Musketeers ; Your Eyes
ANYTHING GOES (1934) You're The Top ; Anything Goes
THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (1947) We Are Marching Through the Night ; We Are Rounding Up the Foe ; Sympathy ; Seek the Spy ; The Fatherland Is Free ; Finale
OH, KAY! (1960) Home ; The Twenties Are Here to Stay ; The Pophams ; You'll Still Be Here
TO BE CONTINUED
Dear Old Pnibw ; Men With Whiskers ; The Visitors ; Oh, Tune the String ; The Income Tax Song
Appendix A: The 'Lost Shows'
Appendix B: On the Writing of Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse
Select Bibliography
Selected Recordings.

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