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3. Her mother she could never stand, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, Her mother she could never stand, And so a cyanide soup she planned. Read the first page
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Fortunately most of the little fills, intros etc are there, so you can learn those and make the songs sound roughly like Tom does, then play any old accompaniment underneath if you so wish. Which is closer to Lehrer's own performances anyway, since (with a few notable exceptions) his piano parts are generally quite basic and support the tune, as they should of course.
A shame OEdipus Rex, Clementine and It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier from An Evening Wasted With... are missing. Especially the first; the bluesy little riff he plays at the end of each verse makes the song for me, and is an integral part of what makes it so funny.
And the book itself is nigh-on impossible to stand up on a music stand, especially if the latter has nothing to hold it up! This is a real pain! A real shame, too.
The arrangements here are nice, and for the most part include the melody on the top of the right hand, which makes for more interesting playing than just chords. In terms of difficulty, it varies from really quite easy 'The Old Dope Peddler' for example, to more complex - 'Vatican Rag' etc. Most of it should be within the grasp of people with grade 6 or so.
Unfortunately, not all the piano parts are there. In 'New Math' for example, only the chorus is provided, and you are invited to come up with a chord pattern for the verses. If you find this hard, find it on a midi file, and convert that to sheet music and play that. (All the lyrics, are, of course, provided). Similarly 'Lobachevsky' has no music provided - only the lyrics.
Chords are included.
The book itself is not very well bound, and falls to bits when you try and bend it to stay open.
Overall a good book to get if you like Lehrer's music, but not quite as good as it could be. And if you get it, make sure you read the foreword - very funny!
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