VERDIANA: Opera and Popular Song -- "I sing Verdi like a birdie" -- Gus Edwards, "I'm after Madame Tettrazzini's job" (1909)

Speranza

1909

Gus Edwards, “I sing Verdi just like a birdie”. “I’m after Madame Tettrazzini’s job”.

 

I can sing just like Tetrazzini

if you will just give me one chance

I sing Verdi just like a birdie

I put them all in a trance

so won’t you please Mister Hammerstein

let me sing Puceen for the mob

then I’ll sing for you till next summer

for I’M AFTER MADAME TETRAZZINI’S JOB