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A collection of clever rhymes
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 15, 2021, 02:25:56 pm ---These are so delightful! I'm reading them whenever I feel down. Thank you, friend!
--- End quote ---
I'm glad you like them!
southendmd:
This is a clever song from the Broadway show "City of Angels", by David Zippel and Cy Coleman. Picture a split screen: half the stage in color, featuring the author of popular detective novels, a nebbish named Stine; other half in black and white, featuring the dashing hero of said novels, Stone.
YOU'RE NOTHING WITHOUT ME
STINE: You are some gumshoe
You just don't think well
Get this, dumb gumshoe,
You come from my inkwell
Is your mouth lonely
With one foot in there
Stone, your brain only
Holds thoughts I put in there
Just what you are I'll spell out
You are a novel pain
One speck of lint that fell out
The last time that I picked my brain
STONE: You are so jealous
Of my track record
Tolstoy, do tell us
Your feeble hack record
Your weak knees brand you
Soft and unstable
One small threat and you
Fold like a card table
You drool at my adventures
Your broads in bed are bored
Go home and soak your dentures
Your pen is no match for my sword
BOTH: You're nothing without me
A no-one who'd go undefined
You wouldn't exist
You'd never be missed
STINE: I tell you you're out of my mind
BOTH: A show off, a blowhard
You're equal parts hot air and gall
And no one would doubt me
Without me you're nothing at all
STINE: You're in my plot
I'm still your creator
I call each shot
I'm your private dic-tator
STONE: You are so thick, you
Eat, breathe, sleep fiction
I'm your meal ticket
Knee-deep in cheap fiction
STINE: You gloating ignoramus
You haven't any shame
STONE: Hey, I'm a famous shamus
And most people don't know your name
BOTH: You're nothing without me
Without me you'd just disappear
Right into thin air
And no one would care
Or notice you ever were here
A puppet, an upstart
A loser who's destined to fall
I'm everything you always wanted to be
Let's deal with the issue:
You wish you were me
You're nothing without me
Without me you're nothing
At all
southendmd:
Of course, by the end of the show, there is a resolution. The guys now sing:
I'M NOTHING WITHOUT YOU
[Stine & Stone]
I'm nothing without you
Without you I lack what it takes
Unless we?re combined I have half a mind
To blow all my chances and breaks
Without you i'm bubkis
A flop who keeps dropping the ball
It's time to stop waking start taking the lead
And you are the singular buddy I need
To doubt you is where I went wrong
I?m nothing without you
Without you I'm nothing
[Stone, spoken]
Let's give this a Hollywood ending!
[Stone, Stine & Gabby, sung]
I'm nothing without you
[Stone Stine Both]
No hero
A zero
That's me
[Stone Gabby Stone, Stine & Gabby]
With you by my side
There's no better guide
On how to be all I can be
I'm nowhere without you
To doubt you is where I went wrong
The script calls for fusing and using our smarts
And greatness can come from the sum of our parts
[Company]
From now on I'm with you
And with you is where I belong.
A mash-up, with the original cast, including Gregg Edelman and James Naughton:
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, I do rather like this:
Your broads in bed are bored
Go home and soak your dentures
Your pen is no match for my sword
Front-Ranger:
The minimalist approach and the maximalist!
I had a delightful evening on Saturday attending "Fall Follies with Gilbert and Sullivan" by the Empire Lyric Players. Some fantastic rhymes! I will hopefully get around to posting the best ones this week.
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