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Choirmistress

Mon, Mar 09 2015, 2:42 pm

My school's rotating (weekly) non-Jewish music teacher never received, or deliberately omitted, the first two lines of the chorus! I discovered this only very recently when Googling the lyrics to print out the words for myself.

The lines to which I do remember the melody (if you already recognize the words, you know that the song is "I Love Geography", and no further explanation is necessary) are:

I love ge-og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy,
I love ge-og-ra-phy, because it's so easy to learn.

However, I have never heard the notes to the FIRST two lines:

I love ge-og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy,
I love ge-og-ra-phy; with rapture the pages I turn;

Would anyone who remembers the tune please reply. It's been driving me crazy since I discovered the existence of these previously undiscovered two lines.

If the first one and a half lines are to the same notes, just indicate so and please name the notes of the final eight syllables' worth. If you happen to know of a website with a video of people singing the song, so much the better.

Thanks in advance.

Choirmistress

DrMom

Mon, Mar 09 2015, 4:11 pm

I googled. Is this the song you are looking for?
http://user.icx.net/~richmond/......html

Quote:

I LOVE GEOGRAPHY

Maine is an island in Asia, France is a river in Spain,
Coconuts grow on a mountain of snow,
Deserts are covered with rain;
China is bordered by Norway, Texas is south of Peru,
Persia's a sea, and Vermont is a tree,
I adore knowledge, don't you?

I love ge-og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy
I love ge-og-ra-phy, with rapture the pages I turn.
I love ge-og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy, og-ra-phy
I love ge-og-ra-phy, because it's so easy to learn.

Crocodiles come from Chicago, rivers flow backward up-hill
Grass is quite rare, the equator is square,
Utah is east of Brazil.
Kansas is full of volcanoes, Switzerland's right on the coast.
Knowledge, you see, simply fascinates me,
I love ge-og-ra-phy most.

Choirmistress

Mon, Mar 09 2015, 4:33 pm

Yes, that's the one. The only credit (as composer) that I have ever found listed is for someone with the surname Wilson.

UPDATE: Thanks to the link provided by imasinger, I now have a bit more information than I did yesterday:

The composers were Edith Sanford Tillotson and Ira B. Wilson, and the year of publication is listed as 1932. It's in a two-voice format for soprano and alto.

At any rate, what I am looking for are not the lyrics, which I already found weeks ago, but the tune to the first two lines of the chorus.

Regards,

Choirmistress

Last edited by Choirmistress on Tue, Mar 10 2015, 2:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

imasinger

Mon, Mar 09 2015, 5:05 pm

Here's a possible lead for you.

http://ebay.superlot.ru/?s=ite.....90919

Choirmistress

Tue, Mar 10 2015, 2:18 pm

Thanks, imasinger, but it's not much help since it's in the Cyrillic alphabet and I'm not prepared to spend $33 for just six words' worth of notes.

Thanks anyway for trying.

Regards,

Choirmistress

imasinger

Tue, Mar 10 2015, 2:26 pm

Well, at least I gave you the composer's name and the publication date. You should be able to take that info to a music library and see if someone can help you research it.

Or get in touch with that school on the west coast that performed it in 2009; it came up on google search. Maybe someone there will help.

That's why I said "lead", not "answer".

The song is 80 years old; unlikely to be so well known.

Choirmistress

Tue, Mar 10 2015, 2:31 pm

Wait, what?! It IS posted as a video on Google?!

Stand by while I check this out!....

...Sorry, couldn't find it using the phrases I Googled. Could you refresh my memory with the name of the school, please? Thanks in advance.

Choirmistress

oliveoil

Tue, Mar 10 2015, 6:09 pm

I believe this is what she's referring to - http://www.choralnet.org/view/231821

imasinger

Tue, Mar 10 2015, 6:19 pm

oliveoil wrote:

I believe this is what she's referring to - http://www.choralnet.org/view/231821

Yes, thanks, that's the one.

Not a video, but a school that you can contact and ask the music department.

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