Summary

A book of the music and lyrics of British duo, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.

A book of the music and lyrics of British duo, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. It contains an undated introduction by Donald Swann and the 1990s version also contains a further foreword from Claudia Flanders and Alison Swann written in 1996, and a note from Leon Berger about changes in the newer edition. There is an Afterword which is a previously unpublished poem/lyric by Michael Flanders. The music in the book is for piano.The songs in this book are: * In the Bath* Design for Living* Misalliance* The Gas-Man Cometh* A Song of the Weather* Pillar to Post* Rain on the Plage* Motor Perpetuo* Slow Train* A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus)* Last of the Line* Twenty Tons of TNT* The Reluctant Cannibal* P-P-B-B-D* Budget Song* Ballad for the Rich* All Gall* Philological Waltz (Tonga)* Song of Patriotic Prejudice* The Lord Chamberlain's Regulations* The Album* Ill Wind* Guide to Britten* Song of Reproduction* Bedstead Men* Excelsior* Vanessa* Twice Shy* Madeira, M'dear?* The Armadillo* The Hippopotamus* The Ostrich* The Elephant* The Gnu* The Rhinoceros* The Sloth* The Spider* The Wild Boar* The Whale (Mopy Dick)* The Warthog* The Wompom