Seventy-Six Trombones (From "The Music Man")

76 trombones led the big parade

With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand

They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos

The dream of every famous band

76 trombones caught the morning sun

With a hundred and ten cornets right behind

There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds

There were horns of every shape and kind

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons

Thundering, thundering all along the way

Double-belled euphoniums and big bassoons

Each bassoon having its big, fat say

There were 50 mounted cannon in the battery

Thundering, thundering, louder than before

Clarinets of every size and trumpeters who'd improvise

A full octave higher than the score

76 trombones led the big parade

When the order to march rang out loud and clear

Then they ordered a big bang bong on the Chinese gong

By a big bang bonger in the rear!

76 trombones hit the counterpoint

While a hundred and ten cornets played the air

Then I modestly took my place as the one and only bass

And I oompahed up and down the square

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons

Thundering, thundering, all along the way

Double-belled euphoniums and big bassoons

Each bassoon having its big, fat say

There were 50 mounted cannon in the battery

Thundering, thundering, louder than before

Clarinets of every size and trumpeters who'd improvise

A full octave higher than the score