Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics

Subject: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:24 PM

There is a singable English version to the famous Torreador song from Verdi's opera. I used to hear my mother sing it years ago, but forgot most of the words. The last line was "For thee that true one waits, torreador, for thee that true one waits". Can anybody help out on this one ?   SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: masato sakurai
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:27 PM

Scores with English lyrics (neither of which may be the one) are:

Song of the torréador [from] Carmen / by G. Bizet at American Memory

No. 14: Toreador song: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre at VARIATIONS Prototype Online Musical Scores

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:32 AM

From The Opera Database here:

Et que l'amour t'attend,
Toreador, L'amour t'attend!        

And that love awaits you,
Toreador, Love awaits you!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:34 AM

The Aria Database, here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 04:22 AM

Another one ("Toreador Song (Carmen)" - G. Bizet) is at Public Domain Music.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 04:36 AM

Toreador don't spit upon the floor
Use the spitoon, that's what it's for.

A lone fragment from somewhere.
Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:42 AM

Giok, my family sang it:

"...Use the CUSPIDOR, that's what it's for."

Scans and rhymes better.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyric
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 11:01 AM

Must be from the same source as

Finiculi finicula finiculi finicula
Elbows off the table, please remember where you are

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 03:54 PM

Red-Shirts who are awaiting Kirk's command;
Time to beam down, now you must land.
And when your alien foe are close at hand,
Spill your guts on the sand.
And when yo all have met, your final fate,
Kirk will nego-ti-ate!

CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 06:21 AM

Or from "Carmen Jones':

Stand up and fight, boys, 'til you jear the bell
Stand up and fight, fight like hell!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 09:23 AM

We had the cuspidor version too... I thought those were the real lyrics for ages!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From:
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 09:22 AM

I remember some of the words and I think they are similar to the ones you quoted. If I remember right they were:
Toreador now guard thee
Toreador, Toreador
Bear thou in mind when combat thee elates
Bright eyes fondly adore thee
For thee a fond heart waits
Toreador Toreador.
Does this ring a bell.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 07:56 AM

Found with Google Book Search, in "The High School Assembly Song Book" by Frank R Rix, 1912.

TOREADOR SONG
"Carmen." G. Bizet, arr. By F. R. Rix.
Tr. By F. R. R.

1. Soldiers brave, your kindness, answer claiming,
We greet with pleasure, comrades gay and bold;
Yes, we Toreros, With ardor flaming,
Feel delight and thrill with joy When we combat behold.
'Tis a festal day, seats are crowded,
Full with eager throngs to view the coming treat;
Loud is the shouting, All eyes are straining;
Surging to and fro, the people strive their hero to greet.
Hear the shouting and the loud applauding
When the bull leaps out and stands with haughty mien!
'Tis indeed the fete of hearts courageous
'Tis the day when brave deeds are seen.

CHORUS: Come on! Prepare! On guard! Beware!
Ah! Toreador, be careful! Toreador! Toreador!
Know this, to help thee in thy valiant fight,
One heart is fondly prayerful,
For thee that true one waits, Toreador!
For thee that true one waits.

2. Suddenly the noise is silenced, the noise
is silenced. What can the matter be?
Then comes the answer, then comes the answer;
Swift a mighty bull bounds forth, strong and free.
On he flies! He strikes his enemies,
A horse is overthrown, With him falls a picador;
Ah! Bravo, Toro, wildly is shouted,
Onward flies the bull, now here, now there,
In frenzy he fights. Goaded by the banderillos,
With furious looks he comes; the ring is red with gore!
Terrified all try to jump the fences,
Time for you, O Toreador.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST,edthefolkie
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 09:06 AM

"Toreador Now Guard Thee" certainly does ring a bell. Probably an Edison Bell in fact.

My Mum had an old windup gramophone which came with an assortment of 8", 10" & 12" records. Some were so old that the original recording had been done acoustically i.e. by shouting into a dirty great horn!

Most of the records were dance band stuff by Harry Bidgood, Henry Hall etc "with vocal refrain" but a few were operatic classics which had been rewritten to last no longer than 5 minutes. The Toreador Song was one. Also an aria from the Magic Flute - the label said "Now Your Days of Philandering are Over" (Cherubino Brave and Bold). All these old translations seem to have been full of Thees, Thines and similar doublet ruffling stuff.

My Mum, at the age of 94, still sings snatches from the Mozart aria - and the lyrics set my teeth on edge EVERY TIME!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyric
From: JJ
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 09:20 AM

edthefolkie, you have the wrong Mozart opera. Cherbino is a character in THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, not THE MAGIC FLUTE.

The weird thing is that I know that aria, "Non piu andrai," sung by Figaro to Cherubino, in another English version, by Ruth and Thomas Martin:

From now on, my impetuous lover
No more frantic romantic excursions
Such diversions are done with and over
Cherubino, my young cavalier
Such diversions are done with and over
Cherubino, my young cavalier

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST,edthefolkie
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 11:50 AM

Sorry yes, it's Figaro - senior moment! That'll teach me to work when I should be posting.

Not that you could tell what aria it was let alone what opera by the time the old record got broken. I can still hear the scraping from the tortured grooves. What a shame - the singer was lovely Peter Dawson.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Nov 07 - 02:22 PM

i always heard it as

the Esso sign for 'appy motoring!
Zee esso sign, zee Esso sign!

or occasionally

Don't let your doo dah dangle in the dust

mind you, we weren't a cultured family.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST,forthepresent
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 12:01 AM

Good Ol' Grandma Knockwood:

Toreadora, don't spit on the flora,
Use a cuspidora, that's what it's fora...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyric
From: Gervase
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 03:04 AM

We had a version that emerged one morning at school:

Sorry I'm late sir, but I missed the bus;
No need to make such an awful fuss.
Each day I try to catch the 129
But it never seems to come on time...

And the rest is lost in the mists of muddled memory.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Oct 09 - 11:08 AM

Toreador, make ready,
Toreador, Toreador,
And think on her, on her who all can see,
On a dark eyed lady, and on us all we sing,
Toreador, on all us make ready!

To-re-a-dor, To-re-a-dor make ready!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Torreador (from opera) English lyrics
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 05:07 AM

There is a version in English that I cannot find. Pardon me if I butcher this, I learned this over ten years ago.

Toreador en garde
Toreador, toreador.
Try not to be distracted by the crowd
Something something while you fight..
Dark eyes are watching you
Toreador
Love will be yours tonight!

Help! I would really like to find this specific version!