A SYMPHONIC VARIATION (THE VIOLINS PLAY ALONG)

The Brothers Four - 1962 (Live Concert Recording)


SPOKEN:
Now the Hit Parade in today's Music Industry is a wierd thing. Top
ten, the top forty, the top one hundred, the top seven thousand
(laughter). These are all lists of records, popular with and
purchased by eleven, twelve thirteen year old kiddies (laughter).
It's just the thing for music from such people as, oh, Elvis, Fabian,
Fats, Chubby, skinny, messy, icky (laughter). And with this kind of
thing going on, it's hard for us to know what to put out for the Top
Forty or the Hit Parade market. We feel that Rock and Roll is on one
end of the musical spectrum. Now, we'd like to go into the other end
of the musical spectrum that we ah, we feel that ah, that we feel is
Classical and Symphonic music. We'd like to start off our
contribution to the Symphonic and Classical music world this evening
with something from the string section.....

1st VOICE:
The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along
The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along

SPOKEN:
And now we progress to the woodwind section.....

2nd VOICE:
The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet
The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet

SPOKEN:
Thank you. Now we'd like to have something from the percussion
section.....

3rd VOICE:
The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat
The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat

SPOKEN:
Now the horns (laughter).....

4th VOICE:
The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn
The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn

1st VOICE:
The violins play the song
Everyone has got to sing along
2nd VOICE:
The clarinet, the clarinet
He doesn't know it, but he'll learn it yet
3rd VOICE:
The drums are never sharp, the drums are never flat
They just go rat-tat-a-tat-tat-tat
4th VOICE:
The horn, the horn
Just sneers with scorn

1st VOICE:
The violins play the song
(All other voices join in, singing
their lines and overlapping each other)
And everyone has got to sing along


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2005)