Overture/Rock Island

River City Junction!
 River City Junction!
 You're crazy with the heat! Credit is no good for an ocean salesman.
 All aboard!
 Why not? What's the matter with credit?
 Why it's old fashioned.
 Charlie! You're an anvil salesman.
 Your firm give credit?
 No sir.
 Nor anybody else.
 River City! Next station stop. River City next!
 Cash for the merchandise
 Cash for the button hooks
 Cash for the cotton goods
 Cash for the hard goods
 Cash for the fancy goods
 Cash for the soft goods
 Cash for the nuggins and the pickins and the friggins
 Cash for the hog's head, cash and jemmy johns
 Cash for the crackers and the pickels and the fly paper.
 Look,
 Whadoya talk
 Whadoya talk
 Whadoya talk
 Whadoya talk
 whadoya talk
 Where do you get it?
 Whadoya talk
 You can talk
 You can talk
 you can bicker
 you can talk
 you can bicker, bicker bicker
 you can talk
 you can talk
 you can talk talk talk talk
 bicker bicker bicker
 You can talk all you want to but it's different than it was
 No it ain't. No it ain't but you gotta know the territory
 Where's the Model T Ford?
 made the trouble
 made the people want to go
 want to get
 want to get
 want to get up and go
 7 8 9 10 12 14 23 miles to the county seat
 Yes sir
 Yes sir
 Who's gonna patronize a little bitty two by four kinda store anymore?
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 where do you get it
 not the Model T at all
 take a gander at the store
 at the Madrin store
 at the present day store
 at the present day Madrin departmentalized grocery store
 What do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 where do you get it
 what do ya talk
 what do ya talk
 where do ya get it
 You can talk
 you can bicker
 you can talk
 you can bicker
 you can talk, talk, talk,
 bicker, bicker, bicker
 You can talk all you want to but it's different than it was.
 No it ain't but you gotta know the territory.
 Why it's a you need a biscuit
 made the trouble
 you need a, you need a
 put the crackers in the package
 the you need a biscuit in an airtight sanitary package
 made the cracker barrel obsolete
 obsolete
 obsolete
 obsolete
 Cracker Barrel went out the window with the mail pouch
 cut plug chawin by the gold
 changed the approach of the traveling salesman
 made it pretty hard
 No it didn't
 no it didn't
 but you gotta know the territory
 Gone
 gone
 Gone with the hog's head, cask and demmy john
 Gone with the sugar barrel, pickel barrel, milk pen
 Gone with the top and the pail and the tears
 Ever meet a fella by the name of Hill?
 Hill?
 Hill?
 Hill?
 Hill? Hill
 Hill? Hill!
 No
 Just a minute
 Just a minute
 Just a minute
 never heard of any salesman hill
 Now he doesn't know the territory.
 Doesn't know the territory?
 What's the fella's line?
 Never worries bout his line
 Never worries bout his line?
 Or the Cracker Barrel being obsolete
 or the you need a biscuit in an airtight sanitary package
 Or the Model T Ford
 Just a minute
 Just a minute
 Just a minute
 Never worries bout his line
 Never worries bout his line
 or a dog gone thing
 he's just a
 bang beat bell ringing
 big palm great go neck or nothing
 rip roar and every time a bullseye salesman
 That's professor Harold Hill
 Harold Hill
 Tell us what's his line?
 What's his line?
 He's a fake and he doesn't know the territory
 What do ya talk
 What do ya talk
 What do ya talk
 What do ya talk
 He's a music man
 he's a what?
 He's a what?
 He's a music man and he sells clarinets
 to the kids in the town with the big trumbones and the ratatat drums
 big brass base
 big brass base
 and the picilo the picilo
 uniforms too with a shiny gold braid on them and a big red stripe running
 Well I don't know much about bands
 but I do know that you can't make a living selling big trombones
 no sir
 Mandalin pigs perhaps and here and there a joves harp
 No the fella sells bans
 boys bands
 I don't know how he does it
 but he lives like a king
 and he dallys and he gathers
 and he shines
 and when the man dances certainly boys what else? the piper pays him
 Yes sir
 Yes sir
 yes sir
 Yes sir
 When the man dances certainly boys what else? the piper pays him
 Yes sir
 yes sir
 but he doesn't know the territory