[Stella:]
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Aida
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There's not a melody sweeter
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But you'll be sweeter when we begin turning you into a rag
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Aida
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We're gonna chop up your meter
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We're getting tired of you and so
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Here's where we're going to hurdy gurdy Mister Verdi
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Op'ra
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You always sound like an uproar
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And that's the reason it's not a sin turning you into a rag
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You'll soon be placed with the popular taste
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For we're going to rearrange you, change you to a rag
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[Ernesta:]
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Dreamy
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La Boheme
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We will hesitate to you
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Tho' we aggravate Puccini
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He may
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Roar and scream
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Nevertheless we will hesitate to La Boheme
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[Algy:]
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Op'ra lovers if you'll grant us your pardon
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We'll take the Garden scene from Faust
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[Hardacre:]
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And we'll rearrange the flower song
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And call it our song
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[Algy:]
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Because it's melody makes a dreamy Maxixe
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Op'ra lovers if you do not approve of what we remove of Faust
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Just "roust" and occupy back seats while we maxixe
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To the Flower song from Faust
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[Birdie:]
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Everybody's doing it so we'll do the tango
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To the strains of Carmen
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O'er the floor
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Let ev'ry Carmen take a Toreador
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And throw her arms around him while they go dancing
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To that entrancing melody
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There's something in the rhythm of that refrain
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That suits us perfectly
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That's the reason we do the Tango to
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The Carmen melody
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[Refrain:]
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Oh, you Pagliacci
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You make a wonderful one-step a barrel of fun-step
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And so before we're through
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We'll make a one-step out of you
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We like you Pagliacci
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Because your melody mellow
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By Leon Cavallo
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Affords us something new
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And so we'll one-step to you
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[Verdi:] Please don't rag my melody
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[Chorus:] We hate to tantalize you but we mean to modernize you
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[Verdi:] Let my Rigoletto be
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[Chorus:] We want you syncopated even though we know you hate it
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[Verdi:] Tell me why you pick on me
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[Chorus:] Because you're out of fashion, syncopation is our passion
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[Verdi:] Really I'm as mad as a man can be
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[Chorus:] So are we, so are we
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[Verdi:] You know it's wrong
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[Chorus:] What's wrong? What's wrong?
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[Verdi:] To change my song
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[Chorus:] Your song is wrong
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[Verdi:] 'Twill drive me mad
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[Chorus:] Too bad, too bad
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[Verdi:] You'll have to stop!
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[Chorus:] No! No! No! No!
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[Verdi:] I ask you not to rag my melody
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[Chorus:] You'll never recognize it from the way that we'll disguise it
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[Verdi:] Tell me why, oh, why does it have to be
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[Chorus:]
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We're growing weary of your dreary little melody
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That's why we play it the way it ought to be
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[Verdi:] You needn't bother, I would rather you would let it be
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[Chorus:] There's nothing to it, we'll do it easily
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[Verdi:] Please don't
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[Chorus:] We will
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[Verdi:] Don't rag my Rigoletto
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[Chorus:] We will
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[Verdi:] Again I say
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[Chorus:] What do you say? What do you say?
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[Verdi:] You'll have to stop
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[Chorus:] No!
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[Verdi:] Yes!
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[Chorus:] No!
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[Verdi:] Yes!
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[Chorus:] No!
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[Verdi:] Yes!
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[Chorus:] No!
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[Verdi:] Yes!
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[Chorus:] No!
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[Verdi:] You'll have to stop
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[Chorus:] No! No! No! No!
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[Verdi:] Why are you tired of my melody
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[Chorus:] We hate to pay admission for your dreary composition
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[Verdi:] It doesn't sound the same to me
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[Chorus:] You'll notice in a minute that we put some ginger in it
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[Verdi:] You have changed the harmony
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[Chorus:] You must admit it's sweeter even though we changed the meter
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[Verdi:] Won't you spare my poor Rigoletto
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[Chorus:]
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Oh, you know, it's slow and so
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We'll sprinkle on your melody a bit of originality
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[Verdi:] Kindly spare it
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[Chorus:] We will tear it
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[Verdi:] Don't you dare it
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[Chorus:] You must bear it
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[Verdi:] Stop!
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[Chorus:] We're going to rag it
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[Verdi:] Stop!
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[Chorus:] We're going to rag it
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[Verdi:] Stop!
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[Chorus:] We're going to rag it
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[Verdi:] Stop!
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[Chorus:] We're going to rag it
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[Verdi:] No!
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[Chorus:] Rag, rag, rag, rag your Rigoletto
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[Verdi:] No!
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[Chorus:]
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Oh, you Pagliacci
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You make a wonderful one-step a barrel of fun-step
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And so before we're through
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We'll make a one-step out of you
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We like you Pagliacci
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Because your melody mellow
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By Leon Cavallo
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Affords us something new
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And so we'll one-step to |