SATB SSAA Secular #2, Vol. 22

The Cause of Jealousy – Political Humor Song (TTB)
The Cause of Jealousy TTB – a Political Humor song (verse 1)
If Daniel gets promoted, I’ll turn green with jealousy.
I don’t want to be misquoted, but him? Why not me?
My stomach churns with envy, and I’m sick with jealousy,
But the question that concerns me is why him? Why not me?
The thought of his promotion makes me burn, burn with jealousy,
and the thrust of that emotion is why him? Why not me?

Intoxicated by the Wine of Love
Barbara Harbach wrote Intoxicated by the Wine of Love in 2016 and the text is by Farid al-Din ‘Attar, who was born at Nishapur in northern Persia on November 12, 1119, but sources on his date of death vary from 1193 to 1234.  He was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nshapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.

Laumeier Sculpture Anthem
Laumeier Sculture Park is a novelty song along the lines of “Tchaikovsky,” the Ira Gershwin Kurt Weill song that launched Danny Kaye’s career. That was a patter song listing fifty-two Russian composers (all of them male).  Our song, Laumeier Sculpture Park, uses the same rhyme and metrical schemes as “Tchaikovsky,” and lists most of the Laumeier Sculpture Park installations.
Partial Lyrics:
Laumeier Sculpture Park, One-two-five-eight-zero Rott Road, a living lab‘ratory, an outstanding art museum. St. Louie Bones, and Alpha, Walking Roots, and Falling Man, Cubed Squared, and Not Without My Dog, and Wattle and Daub. Old Temple, and Untitled, Recess, and Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall! Laumeier Lamps, and Java, Topiary, Hunt and Gather. And Ada’s Will, and Pool Complex, and Virtual Laumeier, Free Hanging Chain, and Redwood One, and Sugabus, and Bornibus. There’s Tower Hybrid, Cromlech Glen, and Flooded Chambers Maid.

Symptom Recital
Symptom Recital SSA – an ironic Love Song? Lyrics by Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York;
she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. (Wikipedia)
She is unhappy with everything about herself but knows that “I’m due to fall in love again. “

The Cause of Jealousy (SSA)
The Cause of Jealousy SSA – a Political Humor Song (verse 2)
(Whiningly)
If Donald gets elected, I’ll turn green with jealousy.
I don’t want to be misquoted, but him? Why not me?
My stomach churns with envy, and I’m sick with jealousy,
But the question that concerns me is why him? Why not me?
The thought of his election makes me burn, burn with jealousy,
and the thrust of that emotion is why him? Why not me?