May I have
Your attention
Please
Attention please!
I can deal with
Th is trouble friends
With the wave
Of my hand
This very hand
Please observe me
If you will
I'm Professor
Harold Hill
And I'm here
To organize
The River City's
Boys Band
Oh think
My friends
How could any pool
Table could ever
Hope
To compete with a
Gold Trombone
Rah rah rah
Rah rah tah tah
Rah rah
Remember my friends
What a handful of
Trumpet players
Did to the famous
Fable walls of Jericho
... Walls come
Tumblin 'down
Oh, a band'll
Do it
My friends
Oh yes
I mean a
Boy's band
Do ya hear me?
I say
River City's
Gotta have a
Boy's band
And I mean
She needs it
Today
Well Professor
Harold Hill 's
On hand
And
River City's
Gonna have her
Boy's band
As sure as the
Lord made
Little greeen
Apples
And that Band's
Gonna be in
Uniform
Johnny
Willie
Teddie and
Fred
And you'll see
The glitter of
Crashing symbols
And you 'll hear
The thunder of
Rolling drums
The shimmer of
Trumpets
Da da da!
And you'll feel
Something akin to
The electric thrill
I once enjoyed
When Gillmore
Liberati
Pat Conway
The Great Creatori
W. C. Handy
And
John Ph illip Sousa
All came to town
On the very same
Historic Day
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
Ev'ry famous
Band
Seventy-six
Trombones caught
The morning sun
With a hundred
And ten cornets
Right behind
There were more
Than a thousand
Reeds springin' up
Like weeds
There were horns
Of ev'ry
Shape and kind
There were copper
Bottom tympanies
In horse
Platoons
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
Ev'ry size and
Trumpets
Who would
Improvise a full
Octave higher
Than the score!
Seventy-six
Trombones hit the
Counterpoint
While a hundred
And ten cornets
Blazed away
To the rhythm of
Harch! Harch!
Harch!
All the kids began
To march and
They're marching
Still right today!