SONG: WOULD YOU MISS THANATOGENOS

 

 

[This number has not yet been plotted into the script and is a suggestion as a musical portrait of Joyboy in Act I. It fully complements the foregoing number 'Chocolates'. JOYBOY is alone]

 

JOYBOY:

 

Miss Thanatogenos

I'm besotted Miss Thanatogenos

How can I help it Miss Thanatogenos

Haven't you noticed Miss Thanatogenos

How I've hungered for you from the start

Miss Thanatogenos

Would you Miss Thanatogenos

 

On our soon honeymoon

We will travel in June to Honduras

We may well on the way

See signors making hay with signoras

If we're ill on the day

I've a pill here or two that will cure us

 

Dear Miss T pom pom pom

Honey bee pom pom pom

With you humming around

While I'm safe on the ground

On my knee pom pom pom

Little bee pom pom pom

Would you waltz to the altar with me

 

Pom pom pom pom pom etc.

 

On our soon honeymoon

We will sail on a ship to Gibraltar

On the way we will nip

Round the bay on the island of Malta

We'll be short for a tip

Having paid for our trip to the altar

 

Dear Miss T pom pom pom

Honey bee pom pom pom

If it's yes to our marriage

I'll order the carriage

Be brave pom pom pom

Little slave pom pom pom

Would you waltz to the altar with me

 

Pom pom pom pom pom etc.

 

For our third honeymoon

Would you like to go skiing in Sweden

All my shirts you can fold

In the trunk with the things we'll be needin'

I am told it's so cold

That the Swedes wear their socks while they're breedin'

 

Dear Miss T pom pom pom

Do you ski pom pom pom

Fa la la ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha he

I've a clue pom pom pom

That you do pom pom pom

Would you ski then in Sweden with me

 

Pom pom pom pom pom etc.

 

For our fourth honeymoon

I'm so longing to see Coney Island

Where there's plenty of sea

But not much of a view of the highland

There'll be swells there'll be shells

And so many motels more than Thailand

 

By the sea pom pom pom

We will be pom pom pom

By the day we'll be lazy

On days when it's hazy

We'll not pom pom pom

Do a lot pom pom pom

When we waltz to the band on the quay

 

Dear Miss T pom pom pom

Honey bee pom pom pom

Let's get carried away

On a boat to Bombay

Little flea pom pom pom

On my knee pom pom pom

Would you waltz to the altar with me

 

Pom pom pom pom pom etc.

 

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

To a king a bar of candy is a treat

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

Without a candy bar no day would be complete

 

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

To make her flutter when I throw them at her feet

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

So very tempting and so very nice to eat

 

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

She'll soon discover I'm a second Howard Keel

Chocolates

A box of chocolates

As a lover I'm a man of great appeal

 

Dearest Miss I hope you won't be cross

With this small gesture from your boss

Wedded bliss will be homogeneous

Will you marry me Miss Thanatogenos