'So You Want To Write A Fugue?'

BASS TENOR ALTO SOPRANO

BASS: So you want to write a fugue?

BASS: You've got the urge to write a fugue

BASS: You've got the nerve to write a fugue

BASS: So go ahead, so go ahead and write a fugue.

TENOR: So you want to write a fugue?

TENOR :You've got the urge to write a fugue

TENOR: You've got the nerve to write a fugue

TENOR : So go ahead, so go ahead and write a fugue.

BASS: Oh, come along and write a fugue

TENOR: So go ahead and write a fugue that we can sing

ALTO: So you want to write a fugue?

ALTO: You've got the urge to write a fugue

ALTO: You've got the nerve to write a fugue

ALTO: You've got the nerve to write a fugue that we can sing

SOPRANO: So you want to write a fugue?

SOPRANO: You've got the urge to write a fugue

SOPRANO: You've got the nerve to write a fugue

SOPRANO: So go ahead, so go ahead and write a fugue.

SOPRANO: Write a fugue that we can sing

TENOR: Go ahead and write a fugue

ALTO: Go ahead and write a fugue

BASS: Come, write a good fugue

TENOR: Come, write a good fugue

SOPRANO: Give no mind what we've told you

ALTO: Pay no mind what we've told you

SOPRANO: Give no heed to what we've told you

BASS: Come, write a fugue that we can sing

ALTO→SOPRANO: Give no heed to what we've told you

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Pay no mind to what we've told

BASS: Come, write a fugue that we can sing

TENOR& ALTO& SOPRANO: Just forget all that we've told you

TENOR& ALTO& SOPRANO: and the theory that you've read

BASS: Come, for the only way to write one

BASS: is just plunge right in and write one

BASS: So just forget the rules, and write one. Have a try.

TENOR: For the only way to write one

TENOR: is just plunge right in and write one

TENOR: So just forget the rules, and write one.

TENOR: Have a try, have a try, have a try

ALTO→SOPRANO: :For the only way to write one

ALTO→SOPRANO: is just plunge right in and write one

ALTO→SOPRANO: So just forget the rules, and write one

ALTO→SOPRANO: Why don't you have a try.

SOPRANO→ALTO: For the only way to write one

SOPRANO→ALTO: is just plunge right in and write one

SOPRANO→ALTO: So just igore the rules, and write one

SOPRANO→ALTO: It's a pleasure that is bound satisfy.

BASS: For the only way to write one is to plunge right in

BASS: Just forget the rules and write one. Have a try, have a try

BASS→ALTO→SOPRANO: The fun of it will get you,

BASS→ALTO→SOPRANO: joy of it wil fetch you

BASS→TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: You'll decide that John Sebastian was a personable guy

(INSTRUMENTAL~)

ALTO: But never be clever for the sake of being clever

ALTO: For a canon in inversion is a dangerous diversion

ALTO& SOPRANO: And a bit of augmentation is a serious temptation

SOPRANO: While a stretti diminution,is an obvious solution

SOPRANO: While a stretti, strettti, stretti, diminution

SOPRANO: is a very very obvious solution

BASS&TENOR: :So never be clever for the sake of being clever

BASS&TENOR: For the sake of showing off

(INSTRUMENTAL~)

TOGETHER: Never be clever for the sake of showing off

(INSTRUMENTAL~)

ALTO: But never be clever for the sake of being clever

BASS: So you want to write a fugue?

BASS: You've got the urge to write a fugue

ALTO: for the sake of shooooooooowing off

BASS: You've got the nerve to write a fugue

BASS: So go ahead and write one

SOPRANO: Now never be clever for the sake of being clever

TENOR: So you want to write a fugue?

SOPRANO: But do try to write a fugue that we can sing

TENOR: You've got the urge to write a fugue

TENOR: You've got the nerve to write a fugue(SOPRANO: that we can sing)

TENOR: You've got the urge to write a fugue that we can sing

TENOR: So write a fugue we can sing

TENOR&SOPRANO→ALTO: Why don't you write one(a fugue)

CHAOS: that we can sing

(INSTRUMENTAL~)

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Write us a fugue that we can sing

BASS: Write us a fugue right now.

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Oh come along

SOPRANO: And when you've finished writing it

ALTO: It's rather awesome isn't it?

SOPRANO:I think you'll find a great joy in it

BASS: Hope so

BASS: Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained, they say

BASS: But still it is rather hard to start

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Well?

BASS: Let us try…..Right now?

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Yes(Why not)

TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: Now

ALTO&SOPRANO: We're going to write a fugue

BASS&TENOR: We're going to write a good one

BASS&TENOR&ALTO&SOPRANO: We're going to write a fugue right now.