Nautical Man (or, T.M.B. Pinafore)

[chanaleh]

So, as mentioned yesterday, I have been digging through old documents in the process of overhauling/updating my website, and one more thing I turned up was my Fall 2001 Pinafore filk:

Nautical Man (or, T.M.B. Pinafore)
to the tune of "Particle Man" (They Might Be Giants, Flood)

Nautical Man, Nautical Man,
Smartest lad in the Royal "N".
What's he like?
A pining tenor,
Nautical Man.
Is he a slave or an Englishman?
Can he dance a hornpipe or lead the band?
Will Josephine marry a foremast hand?
Nobody knows,
Nautical Man.

Triangle Man, Triangle Man,
Triangle Man hates Nautical Man.
They have a fight:
Man overboard,
Triangle Man.

[HORNPIPE BREAK!]

Admiral Man, Admiral Man,
Ego the size of the universe man;
Usually kind to smaller man,
Admiral Man.
Articled clerk turned K.C.B.,
Knew better than to go to sea,
So now he rules the Queen's Na-vee,
Powerful man,
Admiral Man.

Captain Man, Captain Man
Exchanged at birth with Nautical Man,
Offering up his daughter's hand,
Captain Man.
Com-for-tably in the bourgeoisie,
Hardly ever gets sick at sea;
But then he uses that big, big D --
Berated man, Captain Man.

Nautical Man, Nautical Man
Suddenly finds he's Captain Man;
Blissful refrains,
For he remains
An Englishman!

[HORNPIPE BREAK!]

Comments

[cycon.livejournal.com]

It took me a minute to realize that "Triangle Man" is Dick Deadeye. This is brilliant!! :D

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

He is rather triangular!

(I think, in retrospect, that must have been the germ for the whole concept. :-)

[cycon.livejournal.com]

Oh cool, I thought my comment hadn't been posted. (LiveJournal told me so itself!)

The other bit to Fridge Brilliance (which didn't occur to me until I sang it the whole way through) was how the instrumental solo (what I think of as "the Triangle Dance") could work as a hornpipe tune.

Truly, one of the best constructed G&S-themed parodies I've ever encountered.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I will pretend that I had the hornpipe in mind all along for the instrumental solo, because NOW I TOTALLY WILL FOREVER OMG.

... I have inserted it appropriately. Thank you, sir.

[c1.livejournal.com]

So, will you be re-imagining the rest of Flood to the tales of Pinafore?

[cycon.livejournal.com]

Some of the other songs would work for other operas. "Birdhouse" would be fun for Sorcerer:

"Not to put too fine a point on it,
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet,
Or I'll put some philtre in your tea."

Whereas Jack Point should sing "Ball and Chain":

"To Fairfax she's gone.
She's 17 and sick of me,
And all my ramblin' on."

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I may never stop giggling!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Tee hee! :)