Satsumas are the Only Fruit [choral setting]

  • for choir SSA or SATB

  • Duration 2' 10"

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Words

by Brian Bilston

Availability

sheet music (PDF master score with permission to print or download an authorised number of copies) available via this website: GBP 1.50 per print-out

Text

Satsumas are the Only Fruit


Oh how I love to consume a satsuma!
A satsuma a day will create a good humour.

To get one I would fight a lion or a puma
or risk the revenge of wrathful Montezuma.

For the sweet taste of a single satsuma
I would listen to a two-hour-long concerto for solo tuba,
or learn the three major dialects of Yoruba,
or read the minutes of the 1906 Duma.

Oh how I love to consume a satsuma!
A satsuma a day will create a good humour.

The merest rumour of a buried satsuma
would make me turn fructo-archaeologist/exhumer.

Juicy-sweet segmental sensation!
Luscious litmus-testing, citrus-besting Christmas elation!

How I love to consume a satsuma!
How I'd love to resume: to dispel any gloom just make room to consume a satsuma.
Oh how I'd love a satsuma.

It is also easier to rhyme than orange.

 

Brian Bilston (adapted and extended)

used and altered by permission
words © Brian Bilston
music © Paul Ayres


for reference...

Satsumas are the Only Fruit [original poem]

O how I love to consume a satsuma!
A satsuma a day leads to good humour.

To obtain one I would fight a lion or puma
or risk the revenge of wrathful Montezuma.

For the sweet taste of just one satsuma
I would listen to a concerto of tuba,
learn the three major dialects of Yoruba,
read the minutes of the 1906 Duma.

The merest rumour of a buried satsuma
would see me turn fructo-archaeologist/exhumer.

Juicy-sweet segmental sensation!
Luscious litmus-testing, citrus-besting Christmas elation!
O how I love to consume a Satsuma!

It is also easier to rhyme than orange.