Music you sing along to - in the car, bath, when hoovering..

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:05 pm

Artist: Lyrics
Song: Saga of Jenny Lyrics
Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
Book: Moss Hart
Premiere: Thursday, January 23, 1941

Jenny made her mind up when she was three
She herself was going to trim the Christmas tree
Christmas Eve she lit the candles, tossed the tapers away
Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas day

Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal would be hard to find
She lost one dad and mother, a sister and a brother,
But she would make up her mind

Jenny made her mind up when she was twelve
That into foreign languages she would delve
But at seventeen to Vassar, it was quite a blow
That in twenty-seven languages she couldn't say no

Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal would be hard to find
To Jenny I'm beholden, her heart was big and golden
But she would make up her mind

Jenny made her mind up at twenty-two
To get herself a husband was the thing to do
She got herself all dolled up in her satins and furs
And she got herself a husband--but he wasn't hers

Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal would be hard to find
Deserved a bed of roses, but history discloses
That she would make up her mind

Jenny made her mind up at fifty-one
She would write her memoirs before she was done
The very day her book was published, history relates,
There were wives who shot their husbands in some thirty-three states

Jenny made her mind up at seventy-five
She would live to be the oldest woman alive
But gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks,
And poor Jenny kicked the bucket at seventy-six

Jenny points a moral with which you cannot quarrel,
Makes a lot of common sense--
Jenny and her saga prove that you're gaga
If you don't keep sitting on the fence

Jenny and her story point the way to glory
To all man and womankind
Anyone with vision comes to this decision--
Don't make up your mind

Amazing what you can find n Google!

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:23 pm

Yes, many thanks Mike for confirmation of the words. We have some Gertrude Lawrence songs on the Vocalian label "Sophistication" series and LPs with Noel Coward etc so are continuing our search.
I !Lena.... hold my hands up ( are the main culprit of the typing.

john · Post by **john** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:55 pm

In the car at the moment I am playing the MATT MONRO SINGS dbl cd, in which he sings Carmichael numbers as well as Lennon and Mc Cartney.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:35 pm

Do we all have to learn The Saga of Jenny Mike

Marian

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:07 pm

Yes Marian, and I will be testing you! But aren't they great lyrics.

Apparently the moral of the song is DON'T MAKE UP YOUR MIND -

which flies in the face of the advice given by Bucks Fizz in 'MAKING YOUR MIND UP'!

Can't even remember how we got on to the subject now. Oh yes, it was Marian44s musical night wasn't it.

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:09 pm

Right Marian, without looking ....

what Did Jenny make up her mind up to do at the age of 12?

How many languages could Jenny not say 'no' in ?

.........

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:14 am

Hi Mike--thanks for all the research you have done on "Poor Jenny"--great to see all the words . I was amazed to see that the lyricist was Ira Gershwin.

I think that Robert may become redundant soon!!

Sorry Robert , you cannot keep going on strike ,and getting away with it

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:20 am

Do I receive any "strike pay" Marian

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:57 pm

It's one of the Marians anyway... I must admit I had to peek!
"Into foreign languages she would delve"..... but I know it now

Sorry we can't afford any strike pay Robert. Are you on or off strike at the moment??

Marian(R)

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:59 pm

Sorry, didn't read the question properly Sir, missed out one section!

The answer is 27

Marian (R)

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:48 pm

Have you become a (R) registered trade mark now then Marian (R) ? Do you have a Pat Pending?

Well done on the 27 languages - I hope you didn't cheat?!

How is Esther? Its Sophie's Christening this week, so I become official Godfather (Not in a Marlon Brando way of course!)

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:50 pm

Robert - where were you in the 1980s? (apart from having THAT picture taken

) - strike pay was scrapped along with the 3 day week! Have you never seen 'Brassed Off'!

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:52 pm

I know it is/was on Channel 4, but I have never seen it

the photo was taken late 80's

michduncg · Post by **michduncg** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:02 pm

Well its nearly the late noughties

!

Victoria Wood did an excellent send up of Brassed Off - set in an mill social club the night before Tony Blair is due to abolish the North/South divide by renaming the whole country the South.

john · Post by **john** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:12 pm

Listening to al martino's PORTAIT OF A SONG STYLIST in the car at the moment. Good compilation with great songs as LOSING YOU, HERE IN MY HEART, WHAT NOW MY LOVE and TAKE THESE CHAINS FROM MY HEART featured on it.