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Choirmistress
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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
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DrMom
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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. |
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Choirmistress
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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
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Choirmistress
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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
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imasinger
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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.
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Choirmistress
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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
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imasinger
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Tue, Mar 10 2015, 6:19 pm
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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