Margie's Music: Video and Audio
Two Songs by Marjorie Roswell
Baltimore Songwriters Association Concert - June 2001
Mattin Center Johns Hopkins University
- I Gave My Body to Science
- Willie Nilly
"This is a sing-along... that means you.... you'll know when to come in" Come gather round And hear my tale So full of woe that I'm glum I've been broken apart, Yes I'm broken-hearted Don'tcha do what I have done. I gave my body to science (Now look what's become of me.) They took my hair Fashioned into a wig And now it's stuck on a shelf Which is not very big. I gave my body to science (Now look what's become of me). They took my lungs They gave 'em to a young man Just as cool as he could be But then he switched from Kools To his favorite Camels And he lives in New York City! They took my eyes Gave 'em to a blind man Just so that he could see Now I wouldn't mind But for what they're lookin' at Just watchin' the damned TV! I gave my body to science (Now look what's become of me). They took my brain Stuck it in a jar Now I know that I'm no fool 'cuz now, my brain is gettin' an education Finally got into Harvard Medical School! I gave my body to science (Now look what's become of me). "I'd like to invite my heavenly choir [Leah Ulansey and Joanne Stato] out to join me." Willie Nilly William D. H. Nilly: Yes, he's a friend of mine. I never know quite when I'll see 'im, But to see him is divine. William Nilly married Nelly Nelly Nilly three tikes bore. Nelson, Ned, and Will the 2nd. But on her way to number four She slipped and fell upon a hillside "William Nilly!" Nelly cried. "Darling, I have always loved you" Then she gasped her last, and died. William Nilly, widower, Would waken in the night and weep Missing Nelly, night or not, When wide-awake or in his sleep. Circumstance, and happenstance, And Willie Nilly knows not why I salute, feel charmed to know him Every time he passes by. William he's a widower, And I, alas, a widow. And if he said he loved me, I might in fact, say 'ditto.' Serendipity's a friend, There's pleasure in not knowing What you might find around the bend Where e'er you may be going.