Victoria University College Capping Carnival, 1921. "Done to Death"
1. Trio
1. Trio.
The Three:
Three great musicians here you see,
Bumptious as ever we can be;
Pictured and posing incessantly,
Three great musicians we.
Wagner:
Mine is the great gotterdammerung.
Hill:
(The name of his father, who was hung.)
Verbruggen: Pardon our Alfred's slip of the tongue.
Wag. and Verbrug.:
He's a musician too.
Hill: I'm a musician too.
All:
One musician's a blighted Hun and
One is an over-baked Belgian bun, and
One from a suburb of Wellington—Yes.
The Three:
Three great musicians, we.
Wagner:
I'm always trying new tonal tricks.
Verbrug.:
And Australasian tours I fix.
Hill:
While at the "Triad" I hurl great bricks.
The Three:
Three great musicians, we.
Wagner:
To me music's a cause for joy.
Verbrug.:
You can't have run a state band, my boy.
Hill:
And you've not heard my Waiati Poi."
The Three:
Three great musicians, we.
Hill:
One was an over-worked Teuton mutt—and
One's a conductor who's now gone fut, and
One was born in the Lower Rutt—so
The Three:
Three great musicians, we.