["Merrily We Roll Along" opens the cartoon]
MERRIE MELODIES
"HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES"
[clock strikes twelve]
["Poet and Peasant Overture" plays]
Town Crier: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.
Tonight the muses sing, and we hearken to Pan
as with sweetly piping lute
he wends us through a delightful phantasmagoria
with the deathless heroes of legend and history
and the entrancing figures of fiction and fantasy.
And first, among our illustrious hosts,
we want you to meet...
[DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE]
[FU MANCHU]
[THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA]
[FRANKENSTEIN]
[all roar]
[Gossec's "Gavotte" plays]
[applause, with a brief snippet of "Have You Got Any Castles?" playing in the background]
Globe Boy: Now I lay me down to sleep...
... bless Papa Leon and Uncle Ray.
["Vieni, vieni" plays]
[THE INVISIBLE MAN]
[TOPPER - By Thorne Smith]
[THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS]
[SO BIG]
[GREEN PASTURES - By Marc Connelly]
[Black-faced angel singer scats]
Bandleader: ♪ If your rhythm's been too dreamy ♪
[Choir repeating: ♪ If your rhythm's been too dreamy ♪]
Bandleader: ♪ And you like your trumpet screamy, ♪
[Choir repeating: ♪ And you like your trumpet screamy, ♪]
Bandleader: ♪ That's when you should call to see me, ♪
♪ 'cuz I've got Swing for Sale. ♪
[trumpet plays]
Bandleader: ♪ If you think a Waltz is horrid, ♪
♪ and you like your rhythm torrid, ♪
♪ 'Till it makes you mop your forehead, ♪
♪ I've got Swing for Sale. ♪
Backup singers: ♪ Rhythm's what this country needs, ♪
♪ For years and years, I've said it. ♪
♪ If you buy from me, it's C.O.D., ♪
♪ I sell swing but not for credit. ♪
[Black-faced angel singer scats]
[applause]
Heidi: ♪ Hidey Hidey Hi. ♪
♪ Hidey Hidey Hi. ♪ (x 2)
♪ Hidey Hi. Hidey Hi. ♪
[THE THIN MAN]
["Boulevardier from the Bronx" plays]
[a snippet of "You're the Cure for What Ails Me" plays]
[WHITE HOUSE COOKBOOK]
["Boulevardier from the Bronx" plays again]
[Whistler's Mother literally whistles]
♪ When I was a tot, I thought quite a lot ♪
♪ Of the famous people in The story books I got. ♪
♪ As I grew in size, So did I grow wise. ♪
♪ And I've learned some things That really opened up my eyes. ♪
♪ But in spite of everything I learned, ♪
♪ There's one old guy Who's still ace high ♪
♪ As far as I'm concerned. ♪
♪ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul. ♪
♪ But the old boy loves to have his fling. ♪
[bulldog drums]
♪ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul. ♪
♪ But he waved his scepter with a swing. ♪
[bulldog drums]
♪ Now here is a man who never fooled around ♪
♪ But daily he mixes TNT. ♪
[explosion]
♪ And now he's up yonder With a ring around. ♪
♪ They called for Mr. Christian, And went on a mutiny. ♪
[Rip Van Winkle snores]
Rip Van Winkle: ♪ Old King Cole is a noisy old soul. ♪
[bulldog drums]
♪ Because we had his fling. ♪
♪ And because he liked to swing. ♪
♪ I went down in history. ♪
♪ So perhaps there's a chance for me! ♪
[applause]
[trumpets sound]
Three Musketeers: ♪ Have you got any castles That you want me to build, baby? ♪
[drumming]
Emily Host: ♪ Fudge it like a good man as you should swallow my book, Henry! ♪
[snake charmer plays his pungi]
Rip Van Winkle: ♪ I'll get out my scissors that cut. ♪
[Uncle Tom punches Rip]
Diamond Jim: ♪ Have you got any mortgages you want to have paid, baby? ♪
[drumming]
[smacking and loud chewing]
[OLIVER TWIST]
["twisting" sound effect]
♪ After all my adventures are through. ♪
[Pied Piper plays his pipe]
Musketeers: ♪ I love you. ♪
[applause]
["Have You Got Any Castles?" instrumental plays]
[THREE MEN ON A HORSE]
[SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE]
[PRISONER OF ZENDA]
Aladdin: Help! Help! Jailbreak! Help!
[Musketeers punch Aladdin]
[THE INFORMER]
[whispering to "Little Boy Blew"]
["Little Boy Blew" blows his horn]
[CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE]
[Robinson Crusoe fires his gun]
[Musketeers fire back]
[ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT]
[UNDER TWO FLAGS]
[even more gunfire]
Rip Van Winkle: Why won't they let me sleep?
HURRICANE]
[GONE WITH THE WIND]
Town Crier: This is your town crier again.
The music fades
and the departing celebrants bid us adieu,
happy with the memories of the book land frolic.
All is well. All is well.
[music playing]
[cuckoos]
[Rip Van Winkle snores]
["Merrily We Roll Along" closes the cartoon]
"That's all Folks!"
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