====== #192 - When I Was a Boy ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Willard Spenser|{{search>"Willard Spenser" @cobs}}++ (1852-1933), 1882
    *from the [[:groups:opera|operetta]] ++Little Tycoon|{{search>"Little Tycoon" opera @cobs}}++, Act I Number 7
  *Alternate title:
    *When I Was a Boy--Little Tycoon
  *Also known as:
    *Now When I Was a Boy
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Now, when I was a boy,\\
Woman without alloy,\\
Ne'er thought of disobeying,\\
Nor ever thought of saying\\
She would and that she wouldn't,\\
She could and that she couldn't,\\
But gentle, modest coy,\\
'Twas when I was a boy.\\
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//chorus: //\\
'Twas all serene\\
like a calm sea-scene,\\
With a sailor's ship a-hoy,\\
Ahoy, ahoy, ahoy.\\
'Twas all serene,\\
like a canned sardine,\\
That was canned for the Siege of Troy,\\
Oh, 'twas when he was a boy.\\
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Oh! she was soft and shrinking\\
And never thought of thinking,\\
But had it all done for her\\
By her superior adorer.\\
Whose knowledge elemental,\\
Statistic, transcendental,\\
Filled her with proudest joy;\\
'Twas when I was a boy.\\
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But all of a snap this being,\\
So docile and agreeing,\\
Has turned into a lion, \\
The mastery to try on.\\
And tells me, in a flutter,\\
My lord must skip the gutter.\\
Such words she'd ne'er employ,\\
Now, when I was a boy. \\
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//(from another section:)//\\
Now when I was a boy,\\
Woman without alloy —\\
Was just like my sweet daughter,\\
Submissive as I've taught her.\\
To please me now she'll marry\\
My chosen — Alvin Barry,\\
A man without alloy,\\
I've chosen from a boy\\
\\
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    *++Willard Spencer|{{search>"Willard Spencer" @cobs}}++ (1852-1933), 1882

//Little Tycoon// is known as the first successful American-written operetta.