The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, 1934)
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2010
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze, 19th century popular song from the movie It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
The song was first published in 1867, with words written by the British lyricist and singer, George Leybourne, with music by Gaston Lyle, and arranged by Alfred Lee
Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn,
Like an old coat that is tattered and torn;
Left in this wide world to weep and to mourn,
Betrayed by a maid in her teens.
Now this girl that I loved, she was handsome,
And I tried all I knew her to please,
But I never could please her one quarter so well
As the man on the flying trapeze.
cho: Oh, he floats through the air with the greatest of ease,
This daring young man on the flying trapeze;
His actions are graceful, all girls he does please,
My love he has purloined away.
He'd play with a miss like a cat with a mouse,
His eyes would undress every girl in the house.
Perhaps he is better described as a louse,
But the people they came just the same.
Oh, he'd smile from his perch on the people below
And one day he smiled on my love.
She blew him a kiss and she hollered, "Bravo!"
As he hung by his nose up above.
Oh, l wept and I whimpered, I simpered for weeks,
While she spent her time with the circus's freaks.
The tears were like hailstones that rolled down my cheeks,
Alas, and alack, and alacka!
I went to this fellow, the blackguard, and said,
"I'll see that you get your deserts!"
He put up his thumb to his nose with a sneer,
He sneered once again, and said, "Nertz!"
One night to his tent he invited her in,
He filled her with compliments, kisses, and gin
And started her out on the road to ru-in,
Since then l have known no repose.
But e'en now l loved her, I said, "Take my name!
I'll gladly forgive and forget;"
She rustled her bustle without any shame,
Saying, "Well, maybe later, not yet."
One night as usual l went to her home,
And found there her father and mother alone,
I asked for my love, and it soon was made known,
To my horror, that she'd run away.
Without any trousseau, she'd fled in the night
With him with the greatest of ease,
From two stories high he'd lowered her down
To the ground on his flying trapeze.
Some months after that l went into a hall,
And to my surprise I found there on the wall,
A bill in red letters which did my heart gall,
That she was appearing with him.
Oh, he'd taught her gymnastics,
And dressed her in tights,
To help him to live at his ease,
He'd made her take on a masculine name,
And now she goes on the trapeze.
(Last chorus:)
Oh, she floats through the air with the greatest of ease,
You'd think her a man on the flying trapeze,
She does all the work while he takes his ease,
And that's what's become of my love.
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This is one of the most moving scenes in motion picture history.
damn. i wish people would do this nowadays. if anyone wanted to sing on the bus they'd get the dirtiest looks and people would just stare at their phones as if nothing's worth living for anymore except whatever's in their world.
In NYC they still sing and play music in the subways and the streets. Bless us musicians 💗
Wonderful movie. Although I am 17 years old, I really enjoyed it.
A Capra Classic and the very first Screwball Comedy. And one of the best of that genre.
wouldn't it be great to get on a bus where everyone is as friendly as that? Times have changed.
Not to get all crotchety--I like my privacy, too--but I sometimes wish I could jump on a train somewhere and bust out into song with a bunch of strangers.
Singer of the third verse is the director himself, Frank Capra
the second guy just nails it! :)
beautiful. the entire scene. it feels like an age where people knew how to 'live', despite surviving through some of the toughest times. wish the folks of today understood what their predecessors went through, instead of talking trash about them all the time.
Wonderful movie. I first saw it 12-13 years old around 1969, and even then I enjoyed it immensly. Of all Capra's great movies, this and It's a Wonderful Life come closest to perfection in my view. Someone wrote in IMDB about this scene, that it's Frank Capra doing a cameo here, singing the third verse, while it emphatically is not. The chemistry between Gable and Colbert was wonderful, which is strange since Colbert complained all through the shooting and Gable came on set with a chip on his shoulder. However, he came to like Capra's style very much.
wonderful scene, wonderful sentiments
Would life anyone's spirits up when feeling stressed out!
These movies are true treasures! Old movies got it right, great actors and good story lines, NO Special Effects.
He called his movies Capra Corn. What a guy!
Thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
Thanks for posting this. I woke up this morning with this song in my head. One of my favorite movies. Capra movies are the best.
Man that's a hell of movie!
Truly better times. Now everybody would stare at their smartphone....
Alas - Alack in Alaska!
I wish this version of the song was on iTunes. And that people on trips like this got along like this too