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Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)

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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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Title:
Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
Description:

It's midnight in the library, and characters from well known books of fiction come to life with various musical numbers.

Director: Frank Tashlin
Producer: Leon Schlesinger

Playlist for Merrie Melodies Cartoons: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D462FE81164A3DD6
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
07:31

English subtitles

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