The MIDI and MIDI Karaoke files were provided by Colin Johnson. Click on the name of the piece to play the MIDI file. If you have a MIKI Karaoke player such as the free vanBasco player installed on your PC, you can click on the MIDI Karaoke link and you will be able to watch the lyrics on the screen as you listen to the music.
You can also download the full sets of MIDI files in ZIP files:The MP3 links go to historic recordings these songs.
Act I - The Royal Stores.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus
- "This noble institution of financial evolution is the glory of our British trade..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 1 second] - No. 2 - Song - Hooley & Bessie, with Chorus
- "If you ever should engage in trade, you will never find your fortune made..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 36 seconds] - No. 3 - Quartet - Sir George, Count, Hooley & Colonel
- "Although I am a man of law, of many years in practice spent..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 39 seconds] - No. 4 - Chorus of Stage Beauties
- "In us of course you see a charming coterie, whose fascinations all confess..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[1 min. 46 seconds] - No. 5 - Song - Charlie & Foundlings
- "If without a single mark of your identity, on a hospitable doorstep you are thrown..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[4 min. 30 seconds] - No. 6 - Song - Beatrice
- "When I came to the shop some years ago, I was terribly shy and simple..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 37 seconds] - No. 7 - Perambulator Duet - Bessie & Charlie
- "Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye, shut your little eye, dear..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[4 min. 22 seconds] - No. 8 - Valse Song - Beatrice & Chorus
- "Over the hills and over into the sunset's glow..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[3 min. 22 seconds] - No. 9 - Concerted Piece - Bertie & Foundlings
- "Foundlings are we, waiting to see who will unravel our pre-natal mystery..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[3 min. 8 seconds] - No. 9a - Exit after Scene (Reprise)
- "Foundlings are we, waiting to see..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[26 seconds] - No. 10 - Song - Miggles
- "It was an evil hour when I met my Mary Ann, oh! woe! woe the day!..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 54 seconds] - No. 11 - Song - Ada & Chorus
- "Left upon a doorstep at half past nine..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 5 seconds] - No. 12 - Finale Act I
- "Farewell, farewell, we tender our congratulations truly..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[6 min. 34 seconds]
ACT II - Fancy Bazaar at Kensington.
- No. 13 - Opening Chorus
- "Charity, charity, charity, charity, fearless are we in a bazaar..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 36 seconds] - No. 14 - Song - (soloist unspecified)
- "I'm a lady not unknown to fame, critics call me by my Christian name..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[1 min. 58 seconds] - No. 14a - Song with Chorus - Bessie
- "I lub a gal, 'spose she lubs me too, anyhow she say she do..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[5 min. 6 seconds] [MP3 File -- sung by Ellaline Terris] - No. 15 - Duet - Miggles & Miss Robinson
- "I am a Jap, please notice my cap, 'twas copied from off a tea caddy..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[3 min. 2 seconds] [MP3 File -- Sung by Mamie Watson and Roy Royston from the 1920 revival] - No. 16 - Song - John Brown & Chorus
- "In the steerage of a Liner I went out to be a miner..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[3 min. 35 seconds] - No. 17 - Trio - Sir George, Count & Colonel
- "If you can fully fathom human folly and fatuity..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[3 min. 33 seconds] - No. 18 - Chorus
- "We're now to have some mystery, the forecast of our history..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[45 seconds] - No. 19 - Song - Charlie & Chorus
- "There was once a country maiden came to London for a trip..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[4 min. 18 seconds] [MP3 File - sung by Seymour Hicks, Harry Jackson on Piano, recorded in 1932] - No. 20 - Song - Lady Dodo
- "The Man in the Moon is down, he is winning a great renown..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 23 seconds] - No. 21 - Song - Bertie & Chorus
- "I'm what folks call a Johnnie, of the title I am proud..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[2 min. 56 seconds] - Nos. 22 & 22a - Chorus & Recits. (soloist unspecified)
- "The show, the show, the show, the show..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[4 min. 56 seconds] - No. 23 - Finale Act II
- "Now joy is in the air, their future will be fair, look'd after by this kindly desperado..." [MIDI Karaoke File]
[54 seconds]
Items 4, 16 and 21 were composed by Lionel Monckton.
Item 14a was written and composed by Leslie Stuart.
Item 19 was composed by Felix McGlennon.
Page created 30 October 2004