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Listen to Sullivan: The Contrabandista & The Foresters by Claire Rutter, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell, Richard Suart, Geoffrey Moses, New London Orchestra, The London Chorus & Ronald Corp
ALBUMSullivan: The Contrabandista & The ForestersClaire Rutter, Frances McCafferty, Donald Maxwell, Richard Suart, Geoffrey Moses, New London Orchestra, The London Chorus & Ronald Corp

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AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Richard Suart
Richard Suart
Bariton
New London Orchestra
New London Orchestra
Orchester
Ronald Corp
Ronald Corp
Dirigent:in
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
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Sir Arthur Sullivan
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Komponist:in

Lyrics

Mr Grigg: From rock to rock
With many a shock
And bump, and thump, and terrible knock,
I fall, and not a soul is near,
The trav’ler’s lonely path to cheer.
Oh! Why did I set out to roam,
And dare the sea’s unpleasant foam?
Slipping, tripping, air so nipping,
Up in the hills away from home.
The love of arts
In foreign parts
Has taken me all the way to Spain:
Fumble, stumble, grumble, tumble,
Up the middle and down again.
This camera, too, to take a view,
I never did such a nuisance know.
If by shock-awry,
Knock’d like crockery,
On the rockery,
Smash it will go.
I say to myself, my dear friend Grigg,
If safe I return I’d rather dig
Than follow the arts in foreign parts.
But I’ll take to a farm, with horse and carts,
With my spouse, and my cows, and my little pigs,
And rear up my lot of little Griggs,
Who’ll lead us a life with their nursery rigs,
Little Griggs, and little pigs,
My spouse, and my cows, and my sows, Ha! Ha!
And my little, little, little pigs.
Written by: Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand

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