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Jul 18, 2015
I am preforming this play so as an actress it is my professional duty to understand every I or in this case my peers are saying and saying. I have to understand the characters and what better way then through their music where their true colors shine and so does their intellectual and spiritual voice.
Jul 18, 2015
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Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
Harold:
Mothers of River City!
Heed the warning before it's too late!
Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!
The moment your son leaves the house,
Does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt.
Billy's Whiz Bang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like 'swell? "
And 'so's your old man? "
Well, if so my friends,
Ya got
Harold:
Mothers of River City!
Heed the warning before it's too late!
Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!
The moment your son leaves the house,
Does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt.
Billy's Whiz Bang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like 'swell? "
And 'so's your old man? "
Well, if so my friends,
Ya got
Harold is saying that these little things of sin will eventually lead these children to become those of libertine men and scarlet women.
Jul 18, 2015
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tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass'steria!
Friends, the idle brain
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass'steria!
Friends, the idle brain
I'm sorry once again I am making mistakes because I am typing so fast I don't mean e I mean be.
Jul 18, 2015
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tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass'steria!
Friends, the idle brain
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass'steria!
Friends, the idle brain
He is saying these kids will e surrounded by bad influences and that the childs mind is the perfect mind for the devil to corrupt.
Jul 18, 2015
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gonna be perfectly frank.
Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes
On while they're loafin' around that Hall?
They're tryin' out Bevo, tryin' out cubebs,
Tryin' out Tailor Mades like cigarette fiends!
And braggin' all about
How they're gonna cover up a
Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes
On while they're loafin' around that Hall?
They're tryin' out Bevo, tryin' out cubebs,
Tryin' out Tailor Mades like cigarette fiends!
And braggin' all about
How they're gonna cover up a
These kids according to the professor will start smoking and hiding this and other things from their parents. They will become pool hall bums.
Jul 18, 2015
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Cistern empty
On a Saturday night and that's trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool
Hall window after school
On a Saturday night and that's trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool
Hall window after school
He is saying that kids are already starting to take in interest in the pool hall and that is cause for action.
Jul 18, 2015
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choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
'Til your parents are caught with the
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
'Til your parents are caught with the
Parents according to Harold won't even realize the trouble until their kids have feel of the wagon completely and are no longer innocent children.
Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015
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Like to see some stuck-up jockey-boy
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands
I apologize once again for my spelling, meas is spelled means. Please know I account for my writing actions. Thank you very much for reading.
Jul 18, 2015
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Like to see some stuck-up jockey-boy
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands
This meas that whether their children play pool or don't will determine the kind of person they become, a bum or a gentlemen.
Jul 18, 2015
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An' the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Here to tell him all about horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Here to tell him all about horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse
Harold is trying to say that their children will become strict gamblers and become regular pool players. Then they will start betting on other things such as illegal races, self ridden.
Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015
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And they call that sloth.
The first big step on the road
To the depths of deg-ra-Day--
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle
The first big step on the road
To the depths of deg-ra-Day--
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle
Harold is saying is that when his children begin playing enough due to the bad people in that hall there going to get pressured into doing things they shoudn't do and they won' t even know it. These people will encourage their children to drink and eventually get used to it and do it regularly.
Jul 18, 2015
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But just as I say,
It takes judgement, brains, and maturity to score
In a balkline game,
I say that any boob kin take
And shove a ball in a pocket
It takes judgement, brains, and maturity to score
In a balkline game,
I say that any boob kin take
And shove a ball in a pocket
Harold Hill is saying that it takes a certain skill to be a billiard player but that the game of pool is for slackers and bums who may not even very well possess any good human aspects. He is saying it's a bad influenced game and will not help their children advance in life.
Jul 18, 2015
Jul 18, 2015
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Why sure I'm a billiard player,
Certainly mighty proud I say
I'm always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend
With a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool head and a keen eye
Certainly mighty proud I say
I'm always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend
With a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool head and a keen eye
Harold is saying due to his past experience as a "billiard player" he has learned things that will help the community see the difference between truth and lies and nonsense and actuality. He is saying he could be a valuable asset to this conundrum featuring the pool table. A conundrum he has created and planted in the minds of these River City Citizens.
Jul 18, 2015
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Well, either you're closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community.
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community.
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City
In the play the Music Man Harold Hill, in order to form his fake boys band and get everyone on board has to convince the parents of River City that the pool table will turn their kids in troubled children therefore they can get them to make their kids join the band so they won't "Fall in with the pool table bums". In this line he is adding drama to the effect the pool table will cause in this community and what it will do to it by saying that there is a "caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community.
Fun fact - In the blocking of this play or the Movie Version this one line is directed to Mr. Dunlop one of the quartet people which like everyone else in the town is quite oblivious to what Mr. Hill is doing.
Fun fact - In the blocking of this play or the Movie Version this one line is directed to Mr. Dunlop one of the quartet people which like everyone else in the town is quite oblivious to what Mr. Hill is doing.