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["Merrily We Roll Along" opens the cartoon]

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MERRIE MELODIES

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"HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES"

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[clock strikes twelve]

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["Poet and Peasant Overture" plays]

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Town Crier: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye.

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Tonight the muses sing,
and we hearken to Pan

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as with sweetly piping lute

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he wends us through
a delightful phantasmagoria

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with the deathless heroes
of legend and history

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and the entrancing figures
of fiction and fantasy.

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And first, among our illustrious hosts,

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we want you to meet...

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[DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE]

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[FU MANCHU]

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[THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA]

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[FRANKENSTEIN]

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[all roar]

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[Gossec's "Gavotte" plays]

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[applause, with a brief snippet of "Have You Got Any Castles?" playing in the background]

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Globe Boy: Now I lay me down to sleep...

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... bless Papa Leon and Uncle Ray.

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["Vieni, vieni" plays]

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[THE INVISIBLE MAN]

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[TOPPER - By Thorne Smith]

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[THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS]

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[SO BIG]

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[GREEN PASTURES - By Marc Connelly]

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[Black-faced angel singer scats]

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Bandleader: ♪ If your rhythm's been too dreamy ♪

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[Choir repeating: ♪ If your rhythm's been too dreamy ♪]

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Bandleader: ♪ And you like your trumpet screamy, ♪

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[Choir repeating: ♪ And you like your trumpet screamy, ♪]

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Bandleader: ♪ That's when you should call to see me, ♪

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♪ 'cuz I've got Swing for Sale. ♪

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[trumpet plays]

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Bandleader: ♪ If you think a Waltz is horrid, ♪

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♪ and you like your rhythm torrid, ♪

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♪ 'Till it makes you mop your forehead, ♪

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♪ I've got Swing for Sale. ♪

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Backup singers: ♪ Rhythm's what this country needs, ♪

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♪ For years and years, I've said it. ♪

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♪ If you buy from me, it's C.O.D., ♪

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♪ I sell swing but not for credit. ♪

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[Black-faced angel singer scats]

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[applause]

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Heidi: ♪ Hidey Hidey Hi. ♪

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♪ Hidey Hidey Hi. ♪ (x 2)

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♪ Hidey Hi. Hidey Hi. ♪

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[THE THIN MAN]

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["Boulevardier from the Bronx" plays]

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[a snippet of "You're the Cure for What Ails Me" plays]

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[WHITE HOUSE COOKBOOK]

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["Boulevardier from the Bronx" plays again]

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[Whistler's Mother literally whistles]

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♪ When I was a tot,
I thought quite a lot ♪

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♪ Of the famous people in
The story books I got. ♪

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♪ As I grew in size,
So did I grow wise. ♪

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♪ And I've learned some things
That really opened up my eyes. ♪

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♪ But in spite of everything I learned, ♪

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♪ There's one old guy
Who's still ace high ♪

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♪ As far as I'm concerned. ♪

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♪ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul. ♪

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♪ But the old boy loves to have his fling. ♪

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[bulldog drums]

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♪ Old King Cole, I'm a merry old soul. ♪

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♪ But he waved his scepter with a swing. ♪

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[bulldog drums]

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♪ Now here is a man who never fooled around ♪

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♪ But daily he mixes TNT. ♪

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[explosion]

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♪ And now he's up yonder
With a ring around. ♪

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♪ They called for Mr. Christian,
And went on a mutiny. ♪

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[Rip Van Winkle snores]

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Rip Van Winkle: ♪ Old King Cole is a noisy old soul. ♪

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[bulldog drums]

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♪ Because we had his fling. ♪

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♪ And because he liked to swing. ♪

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♪ I went down in history. ♪

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♪ So perhaps there's a chance for me! ♪

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[applause]

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[trumpets sound]

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Three Musketeers: ♪ Have you got any castles
That you want me to build, baby? ♪

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[drumming]

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Emily Host: ♪ Fudge it like a good man
as you should swallow my book, Henry! ♪

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[snake charmer plays his pungi]

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Rip Van Winkle: ♪ I'll get out my scissors that cut. ♪

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[Uncle Tom punches Rip]

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Diamond Jim: ♪ Have you got any mortgages
you want to have paid, baby? ♪

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[drumming]

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[smacking and loud chewing]

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[OLIVER TWIST]

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["twisting" sound effect]

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♪ After all my adventures are through. ♪

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[Pied Piper plays his pipe]

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Musketeers: ♪ I love you. ♪

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[applause]

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["Have You Got Any Castles?" instrumental plays]

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[THREE MEN ON A HORSE]

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[SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE]

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[PRISONER OF ZENDA]

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Aladdin: Help! Help! Jailbreak! Help!

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[Musketeers punch Aladdin]

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[THE INFORMER]

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[whispering to "Little Boy Blew"]

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["Little Boy Blew" blows his horn]

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[CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE]

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[Robinson Crusoe fires his gun]

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[Musketeers fire back]

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[ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT]

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[UNDER TWO FLAGS]

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[even more gunfire]

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Rip Van Winkle: Why won't they let me sleep?

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HURRICANE]

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[GONE WITH THE WIND]

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Town Crier: This is your town crier again.

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The music fades

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and the departing celebrants
bid us adieu,

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happy with the memories
of the book land frolic.

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All is well. All is well.

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[music playing]

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[cuckoos]

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[Rip Van Winkle snores]

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["Merrily We Roll Along" closes the cartoon]

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"That's all Folks!"

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