Title: Festival of Music 1 Category: Music From The Great Musicals Cassette 2: Side A Song Title: Seventy-Six Trombones (from The Music Man) Composer: Meredith Willson Performed by: The Young Ambassadors
Seventy-six trombones led the big parade With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos The cream of every famous band
Seventy-six trombones caught the morning sun with a hundred and ten cornets right behind There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds There were horns of every shape and kind
There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoon Thundering, thundering all along the way Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons Each bassoon having his big, fat say! There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery Thundering, thundering, louder than before Clarinets of every size and trumpeters who'd improvise A full octave higher than the score
Seventy-six, seventy-six 'bones led the parade When the order to march rang out loud and clear Starting off with a big bang bong on a Chinese gong By a big bang banger at the rear Seventy-six 'bones hit counter point While a hundred and ten cornets played the air When I modestly took my place as the one and only bass And I oom pahed, oom pahed, oom pah pahed Oom pahed up and down the square
