Motor Bus

Motor Bus

Composer David W Solomons
Arrangement alto voice and guitar
Co-Authors -
Lyrics A D Godley
Performed by David W Solomons
Uploaded on 25 May 2008 15:00
Uploaded by dwsolo
Genre Contemporary
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Publisher Dwsolo
Difficulty Moderate
Pages 3
Religion Not applicable
Nationality -
Layout -
Clef Not applicable
Instrumentation Duet
Language English and Latin
Catalogue id MSS-645-5E9F92A
 

Description

Whole tone - and very tongue in cheek - setting of the Macaronic poem about motor buses by classical scholar A D Godley, who went to the same college as the composer, but a little earlier...:

What is it that roareth thus?

Can it be a Motor Bus?

Yes, the smell and hideous hum

Indicat Motorem Bum...

Implet in the Corn and High

Terror me Motoris Bi

Bo motori clamitabo

Ne motore caedar a bo...

Dative be or Ablative

so thou only let us live

Whither shall thy victims flee?

Spare us, spare us Motor Be....

Thus I sang and still anigh

Came in hordes Motores Bi

Et complebat omne forum

Copia Motorum Borum!

How shall wretches live like us

Cincti Bis Motoribus

Domine defende nos

contra hos motores bos!

[What is it that roars so,

can it be a motor bus?

Yes the smell and hideous hum

indicates a motor bus

In the Cornmarket and the High Street

Fear of the motor bus fills me

I shall call out to the motor bus

Lest I be killed by the motor bus

Dative be or Ablative

so thou only let us live

Whither shall thy victims flee?

Spare us, spare us Motor Bus....

So I sang and on and on

Motor buses came in hordes

And the whole market place was filled

With a host of motor buses

How shall wretches live like us

Surrounded by motor buses

Lord defend us

From these motor buses]

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