Strike Up the Band Page #3

Two happy people

Who say on the square

With fiddles.

Isn't ours a lovely love affair?

Come on, sit down. Try it.

Are you sure you want me to sing

with the band? You're not just...

of course not, we need you.

You're as important to me

as the brass section.

- That's pretty important.

- Try the verse.

Here we are

Two very bewildered people

Here we are

Two babes that are lost in the wood

We're not quite certain

What has happened to us

This lovely thing that's so marvelous

But right from here

The future looks awfully good

Our love affair

Was meant to be

It's me for you, dear

And you for me

We'll fuss, we'll quarrel

And tears start to brew

But after the tears

Our love will smile through

I'm sure that I

Could never hide

The thrill I get

When you're by my side

And when we're older

We'll proudly declare

Wasn't ours a lovely love affair?

I'll learn to bake a chocolate cake

The kind of cake mother used to make

You hungry? Come on, let's go see

if we can find some of that cake.

Swell.

I hope there's some left,

if Daddy hasn't eaten it all up.

You know, Mary,

I'd never be satisfied with a small band.

I want a great big one. A symphony.

Why, I wanna make American music...

...just as important

as any other country's music.

Look at George Gershwin.

Why, his music is as good

as Beethoven or Bach, better maybe.

Best of all, it's American.

You like grapes and strawberries?

Can you imagine me conducting

a concert in Carnegie Hall?

Oh, boy, what a thrill.

On my left, I have 50 fiddles.

Fifty? That's a lot of strings.

And on my right,

I'd have the violas and the cellos.

Oh, wonderful.

And right in front of me,

I'd have the saxes and the clarinets.

You know, the woodwind

is the real body to an orchestra.

Right in back of them,

I'd have the brass section.

Over in the back,

I'd have the bass fiddles. Ten of them.

- Ten?

- Sure, you gotta have a good beat.

Then I'd have the drums

and the tymps. Over here.

Oh, you've gotta have

those drums in there, Mary.

And over in the back,

I'd have a piano on a platform.

- Piano.

- Make it two pianos.

- Two pianos.

- Oh, I just love pianos.

- And a harp?

- Yeah.

Then the lights would dim down,

and I'd come out.

Here, this is me.

I'd tap on my stand for order.

I'd get ready

to give them the downbeat.

I'd give the tymps a downbeat like this:

- There you are, Mary.

- That's wonderful.

Oh, that's the way

it's gonna be:
Success.

- Only...

- only what?

There's just one thing that it lacks

to make it perfect.

- Yeah, just one thing.

- What's that, Jimmy?

Oh, you'd think I was silly

if I was to mention it.

Oh, no I wouldn't.

Really, I wouldn't. What is it?

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