Music Man - The Songs
Coming to the Mitchell Theatre in November - 2002
Rock Island
1st Salesman: Cash for
the merchandise, cash for the button hooks
3rd Salesman: Cash for the cotton
goods, cash for the hard goods
1st Salesman: Cash for the fancy goods
2nd Salesman: Cash for the noggins and the piggins and the frikins
3rd
Salesman: Cash for the hogshead, cask and demijohn. Cash for
the crackers
and the pickles and the flypaper.
4th Salesman: Look whatayatalk,
whatayatalk, whatayatalk,Â
whatayatalk, whatayatalk?
5th Salesman:
Wheredayagitit?
4th Salesman: Whatayatalk?
1st Salesman: Ya can talk, ya
can talk, ya can bicker, ya canÂ
talk, ya can bicker, bicker, bicker,
ya can talk, ya can talk,
ya can talk, talk, talk, talk, bicker, bicker,
bicker, ya can
talk all ya want but is differnt than it was.
Charlie: No
it ain't, no it ain't, but you gotta know the territory
Rail Car: Shh shh
shh shh shh shh shh
3rd Salesman: Why it's the Model T Ford made the
trouble, made the
people wanna go, wanna get, wanna get, wanna get up and go
seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, twenty-two, twenty-
three
miles to the county seat
1st Salesman: Yes sir, yes sir
3rd Salesman:
Who's gonna patronize a little bitty two by four kinda
store anymore?
4th Salesman: Whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk,
5th Salesman: Where do you
get it?
3rd Salesman: Gone, gone
Gone with the hogshead cask and
demijohn, gone with the sugar barrel
Pickle barrel, milk pan, gone with the
tub and the pail and the
tierce
2nd Salesman: Ever meet a fellow by the
name of Hill?
1st Salesman: Hill?
Charlie: Hill?
3rd Salesman: Hill?
4th Salesman: Hill?
1st Newspaper: Hill?
2nd Newspaper: Hill?
5th Salesman: Hill?
2nd Salesman: Hill!
All But Charlie & 2nd
Salesman: NO!
Charlie: Just a minute, just a minute, just a minute
4th
Salesman: Never heard of any salesman Hill
2nd Salesman: Now he doesn't know
the territory
1st Salesman: Doesn't know the territory?!?
3rd Salesman:
What's the fellow's line?
2nd Salesman: Never worries 'bout his line
1st
Salesman: Never worries 'bout his line?!?
2nd Salesman: Or a doggone thing,
He's just a bang beat, bell ringing,
Big haul, great go, neck-or-nothing,
rip roarin', every time a
bull's eye salesman, That's Professor Harold Hill,
Harold Hill
3rd Salesman: What's the fellow's line?
5th Salesman: What's
his line?
Charlie: He's a fake, and he doesn't know the territory!
Look,
whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk, whaddaya talk?
2nd Salesman:
He's a music man
He's a what?
3rd Salesman: He's a what?
2nd
Salesman: He's a music man and he sells clarinets to the kids in
the town
with the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums, big
brass bass, big brass
bass, and the piccolo, the piccolo with
uniforms, too with a shiny gold
braid on the coat and a big
red stripe runnin'...
1st Salesman: Well, I
don't know much about bands but I do know you can't
make a living selling
big trombones, no sir. Mandolin picks, perhaps
and here and there a Jew's
harp...
2nd Salesman: No, the fellow sells bands, Boys' bands. I don't know
how heÂ
does it but he lives like a king and he dallies and he
gathers and he plucks and he shines, and when the man dances
Certainly,
boys, what else? The piper pays him! Yes sir,Â
yes sir, yes sir, yes
sir, when the man dances, certainly,Â
boys, what else? The piper pays
him! Yessssir, Yessssir
Charlie: But he doesn't know the territory!