The music man ya got trouble / seventy six trombones

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Meredith WillsonYa Got Trouble (The Music Man)
Professor Harold Hill
Well, Ya got trouble, my friend,
Right here, I say trouble right here in River City.
Why sure, I'm a billiard player certainly mighty proud,
I say I'm always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense and a cool head and a keen eye.
'Jever take-'n try to give an iron clad leave to yourself from a 3-rail
billiard shot?
But just as I say,
It takes judgement, braind & maturity to score in a balk line game,
I say that any boob kin take 'n' shove a ball in a pocket,
And I call that sloth!
The 1st big step on the road to degreda...
I say, first it's a little,
Medicinal wine from a teaspoon, Then beer from a bottle.
And the next thing you know,
your son is playin' fer money in a pinch-back suit,
and listenin to some big out-a-town jasper hearin' him tell about
horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they sit down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey boy settin' on Dan Patch
Make your blood boil, well I should say.
Now friends, let me tell you what I mean.
You got one, two, three, four, five, six,
Pockets in a table!
Pockets that mark the difference,
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital B,
And that rhymes with P,
And that stands for pool!
And all week long,
Your River City youth'll be fritterin' away,
I say your young men'll be fritterin.
Fritterin away their noon-ime, supper-time, chore-time too!
Get the ball in the pocket!
Never mind gettin' dandelions pulled,
Or the screen door patched,
Or the beef-steak pounded.
Nevermind pumpin' any water 'til your parents are caught
With the cistern empty on a saturday night.
And that's treouble, oh yes,
Ya got lots and lots 'a trouble,
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt tails, young ones,
Peekin' in the pool hall window after school,
Ya got trouble, folks!
Right here in River City!
Trouble, with a capital T,
And that rhymes with P,
And that stands for pool!
Now I know that all you folks are the right kind of parents.
I'm gonna be perfectly frank.
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Would you like to know what kind-a conversation
Goes on while they're loafin' around the hall?
They'll be tryin' out Bevo,
Tryin' out Cubens,
Tryin' out Tail or Mades,
Like cigarette feinds,
And braggin' all about how they're gonna
Cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
One fine night,
They leave the poolhall:
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry.
Libertine men and scarlet women and ragtime,
Shameless music,
That'll grab your son,
Your daughter,
To the arms of the jungle animal instinct mass'steria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground,
Trouble!

Townspeople (Hill)
Oh we got trouble!
(right here in River City)
Right here in River City!
(trouble w/a capital T & that rhymes with P & that stands for pool)
That stands for pool!
(we've surely got trouble)
We've surely got trouble!
(right here in River City)
Right here!
(gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school)
Our children's children gonna have Trouble
Trouble! [Repeat many times]

Harold: 'Mothers of River City! Heed the warning...'
(dialogue until:)
Harold: 'If so my friends...'

Harold Hill
(Townspeople)

Oh, ya got trouble!
Ya got lots & lots 'a trouble!
That game with the 15 numbered balls is the devil's tool!
(devil's tool!)
Oh yes, we've got trouble, trouble!
(Oh yes, we've got trouble here, we've got big, big trouble)
With a 'T'!
(with a capital T!)
That rhymes with P!
(that rhymes with P)
That stands for pool!
(that stands for pool

"Seventy-Six Trombones" is a show tune and the signature song from the 1957 musical The Music Man, by Meredith Willson, a film of the same name in 1962 and a made-for-TV movie in 2003. The piece is commonly played by marching bands, military bands, and orchestras.[1][2]

In The Music Man[edit]

In the musical, it is the primary sales pitch for a boy's band, sung by "Professor" Harold Hill.[3] Hill uses the song to help the townspeople of River City, Iowa visualize their children playing in a marching band by claiming to recall a time when he saw several famous bandleaders' bands in a combined performance. While an average-sized high school marching band might have about 10 musicians playing the trombone, and a large college marching band seldom has more than 30 trombonists, the band that Harold Hill describes to the citizens includes 76 trombones, 110 cornets, "more than a thousand reeds", double bell euphoniums, and "fifty mounted cannon" (which were popular in bands of the late 19th century). The song's opening lines are:

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand ...

The love ballad "Goodnight My Someone", which immediately precedes "Seventy-Six Trombones" in the musical, has the same tune but is played in 3/4 time at a slower tempo. At the end of the musical, lines from "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Goodnight My Someone" are sung in alternation with each other.[3] This technique is used in opera, but was unknown in Broadway musicals.[3]

Notable performances[edit]

• André Rieu and his orchestra customarily open and enter to the piece.[8]

Homages[edit]

In Willson's hometown of Mason City, Iowa, the song is honored (along with the whole plot of The Music Man) in a building called "Music Man Square", which is located next to Willson's boyhood home.[9] In one large room, there are 76 donated trombones hanging from the ceiling.

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