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Songs of Cricket 1 Cricket Theme Medley

Various, arr. Alexander L’Estrange

[5.24]

2 The Cricketers of Hambledon †

Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock

[2.42]

3 School Songs Medley (five school songs) †

Various

[5.48]

4 The Summer Game – from Cricket (Hearts and Wickets)

Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber

[3.39]

5 Lillian Thomson

Richard Stilgoe

[2.04]

6 Radnage Cricket Song (Bucks. folk song)

Traditional, collected by Horace Harman

[2.00]

7 Four Jolly Bowlers †

The Yetties

[2.24]

8 The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant

The London Quartet / W.H. Havergal

[2.34]

9 You’ve Got to be a Cricket Hero † (to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls)

Al Sherman / Buddy Fields / Al Lewis and Fred Tupper / Cliff Nichols

[2.39]

0 Jiggery Pokery †

Neil Hannon / Thomas Walsh

[3.13]

q Village Rondo †

Matthew Holst, arr. Chris Hatt

[3.41]

w Eton and Winchester †

R.T. Warner / F.S. Kelly

[4.10]

e I Made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum’s

Greg Champion

[2.29]

r Australian Cricket Medley †

Various

[5.42]

t The Barmy Army

Richard Stilgoe

[3.21]

y That’s Not Cricket – from At Home Abroad †

Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz

[2.26]

u Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket

Anon. / The London Quartet

[2.19]

i Andy Flower Duet †

Richard Stilgoe / Léo Delibes

[2.04]

o Jerusalem †

Richard Stilgoe / C. Hubert Parry

[1.18]

p When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease

Roy Harper

[7.00]

a ‘Stop it, Aggers!’

Rory Bremner

[2.02]



[69.00]

Total timings:

All titles arranged by The London Quartet unless otherwise indicated.

THE LONDON QUARTET with Chris Hatt piano – tracks marked †

Gary Lovenest – cowbell (track 1)

Alexander L’Estrange – piano and vocal percussion (track 1), stick bass (track 13)

The Cricket Choir – The London Quartet, David Rayvern Allen, Richard Stilgoe and Robin Tyson (track 19)

Richard Stilgoe – tracks 5, 15 and 19

Tim Rice – track 4

Eliza Lumley – tracks 9, 10, 16 and 18

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THE LONDON QUARTET Richard Bryan (Counter-tenor) Steven Brooks (Tenor) Mark Fleming (Tenor) Michael Steffan (Baritone) With Chris Hatt (piano) And Alexander L’Estrange (piano) Guest Artists: Richard Stilgoe, Eliza Lumley, Rory Bremner and Tim Rice polyphony, jazz and contemporary music. Although essentially an a cappella group they have appeared with a range of leading artists and ensembles, from big band to symphony orchestra.

The London Quartet is one of Britain’s longest established vocal ensembles. Since they became widely known in the early nineteen-eighties they have mastered a wide array of musical styles which they have taken to a worldwide audience, always remaining true to their core vocal texture which is unmistakably rooted in the great English choral tradition. The London Quartet’s origins at Cambridge University, where they were founded as Cantabile, lay in revue as well as in music, and their flair for the stage continues to keep them in demand in theatres and cabaret as well as in concert halls and at festivals; indeed, they featured for over a year in London’s West End. They have appeared in an enormous variety of venues, singing programmes encompassing early

“Mark, Mike, Richard and Steven have few opportunities to play cricket, but take every opportunity to sing about it, which they do wonderfully well. They are now synonymous with the game’s music.” — David Rayvern Allen

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SONGS OF CRICKET

figures immortalised by innkeeper’s son, John Nyren, in ‘The Cricketers of My Time’, form part of its historical tapestry. Eton and Oxford-educated song-writer Peter Warlock, pseudonym for Philip Heseltine, and poet, journalist and wine merchant Bruce Blunt, leaders of the bohemian Eynsford set, collaborated on the ballad which was written at the instigation of ‘The London Mercury’ as a protest against the encroachment of football into the cricket season. On New Year’s Day, 1929, a match between the Hampshire Eskimos and the Broadhalfpenny Brigands was arranged on the elevated and windy Down. Later in the day, the local hunt cavorted across the pitch and dropped into the famous Bat and Ball Inn only to find the cricketers had drunk it dry. Full of bibulous gusto and enjoyable bombast, the song was originally scored for brass band and heard in that form at the end of the game. Warlock, who had a predilection for riding naked on his motorbike, was apparently not present – it was too cold.

1 Cricket Theme Medley: Composer and pianist Alexander L’Estrange’s stunning Cricket Theme Medley incorporates five numbers, four of which are indelibly associated with cricket’s media coverage. The Channel 9 cricket signature tune based on Brian Bennett’s theme from ‘Bluey’, a detective show in Australia, is followed by BBC Test Match Special’s equivalent, Soul Limbo, the invention of one of the first racially integrated Memphis rock groups, Booker T. and the M.G.’s. Next comes the official song of the 2011 World Cup, De Ghuma Ke! (‘Strike it Hard!’), composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa with lyrics by Manoj Yadav, and then the reggae-styled Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc’s last hit from Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, where the sub-title ‘I don’t like cricket’ is a misleading preface to a love of the game. Mambo No.5, a jive dance song by Pérez Prado and popularised by Lou Bega, which is Channel 4’s cricket theme, leads into a reprise of the opening to bring the medley to a close.

3 Schools Song Medley: For some there will be memories of mucky white flannels and sweaty jock-straps on the playing fields of some of England’s prestigious academic institutions. Much moral fibre, unashamed allegiance and exaltation in evidence as provided by a plethora of music masters and associates: Uppingham,

2 The Cricketers of Hambledon celebrates one of cricket’s nursery slopes. Although the game was played earlier in other places, it is Hambledon in Hampshire where the legendary -6-

Harrow, Banstead, Sedburgh and Eton to the fore, don’t you know!

song, except perhaps for ‘hop, hop, hop’ which refers to underarm bowling. Radnage is a remote village in the Chiltern Hills, not far from the Oxfordshire border and the song, later arranged by Madeleine Campbell, is one of the earliest recorded.

4 The Summer Game – from Cricket (Hearts and Wickets): An extract from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s largely unknown mini-musical. Commissioned by H.R.H. Prince Edward for Her Majesty The Queen’s 60th Birthday, the world première took place on 18th June, 1986 at Windsor Castle in a private performance for the Royal Family. The cast included Ian Charleson, Sarah Payne, Alvin Stardust, Ian Savident, George Harris and Prince Edward himself … and nonpareil Tim Rice notwithstanding himself, also said a few words…he thinks ..?

7 Four Jolly Bowlers: During the 1970s and early 1980s an annual series of verse and music programmes especially designed to fill the intervals of Test Matches was heard on BBC Radio 3. All the programmes were presented by John Arlott, with readings from Robin Holmes and Valentine Dyall and all the music was provided by the Yetties. The Yetties – Bonny Sartin, Mac McCulloch and Pete Shutler, three sons of Yetminster in Dorset – were natural exponents of the folk tradition and complemented perfectly John’s lyrics which reflected his insight into the mindset of cricketers lauded and local. As producer of the programmes and on behalf of the BBC, I commissioned a number of songs, including this one. Eventually, they formed the basis of an LP and cassette recording which was issued by Charisma Records in 1984.

5 Lillian Thomson: In the Ashes series of 1974/75, the pair of fearsome Australian fast bowlers, Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson blasted asunder England’s batting. Some consolation was forthcoming in this highly original and amusing take on the mayhem by Richard Stilgoe, who performs it here … 6 The Radnage Cricket Song: From Horace Harman’s book ‘Buckinghamshire Dialect’ produced in 1929, in which one learns that ‘cays in the cayus’ meant ‘cows in the cowhouse’. No such interpretation is needed in the cricket

8 The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant: With the unwitting assistance of that notable -7-

19th-century hymn-writer, The Rev. William Henry Havergal, one-time Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral, who was born at the time MCC first asserted their authority as custodians of the laws of the game, The London Quartet supply a helpful 21st-century addenda for the benefit of confused converts in unlikely territories.

the 3rd June, 1993, Shane Warne bowled his first ball in a Test match against England. Facing the ball was Mike Gatting, renowned for his ability against spin. Steven Lynch picked up the story in ‘Cricinfo Magazine’: ‘as the ball looped down, it seemed to be headed harmlessly down the leg side. The ball drifted even further down the leg side and then it hit the turf. It fizzed back across Gatting – no mean feat – and clipped the top of the off stump … truly the Ball of the Century.’

9 You’ve Got to be a Cricket Hero (to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls): Cambridge theology and philosophy graduate, Eliza Lumley, who memorably gave Radiohead the cocktail jazz treatment, gives a delightfully cool rendition of a foxtrot song that was originally written about American football. The work of Al Sherman, Buddy Fields and Al Lewis proved sufficiently captivating to be adapted by Fred Tupper and Cliff Nichols for Australian cricket. Inserting the names of 16 leading players of the day – we’re talking 1930s – with the photos of a few of them on the cover of the sheet music, guaranteed a sure-fire hit. The message of the song is clear: score well at the crease, get noticed and … well … you’ll score well at …

q The Village Rondo for the Pianoforte: Arranged and played by West End MD/pianist Chris Hatt, this sparkling Rondo was composed by Matthias Holst between 1812 and 1815 and sold for the princely sum of 2s 6d. The front cover depicts a charming rural scene with musicians and dancers in front of a tent and children playing cricket with two stump wickets beside a pub. It is thought to be the first ever visual link between cricket and music. Holst, part German, part Swedish, later inserted ‘von’ before his surname, borrowed illegally from one of his cousins who had been knighted for diplomacy. He lived first in Riga and emigrated to London in 1807. Holst died in 1854 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery. He was the great grandfather of Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets.

0 Jiggery Pokery: A catchy number from Duckworth-Lewis’s (not the method-mathematicians!) Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon, about a single delivery that revived the fading art of leg-spin. On -8-

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w Eton and Winchester: A Song of the Eton & Winchester Match: The essential spirit of cricket as promoted in R.T. Warner’s lyrics: ‘let chivalry not victory sound loudest in our ears’ and ‘elevens ever friends!’ leaves no room for much modern practice on and off the field. The accompanying music by Frederick Septimus Kelly has a similar contemporary feel: late Victorian/early Edwardian and based on sound harmonic principles à la Parry and Stanford, the vitality and movement is never allowed to flag. Besides being a brilliant pianist and promising composer, Kelly was an outstanding oarsman. The fourth son of an Irish father and Australian mother and educated at Sydney Grammar School, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he took part in the 1903 Boat Race. A winner of the Diamond Sculls in a record time that stood for three decades, he was also one of the Leander Crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley for three successive years from 1903 and a gold medallist for Great Britain in the Eights at the 1908 Olympics. A close friend of poet Rupert Brooke, Kelly also died tragically in the First World War. Having survived Gallipoli though wounded twice and been awarded the DSC, 35-year-old Kelly was killed when rushing a German machine post during the Battle of the Somme. - 10 -

e I Made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum’s: Australia’s multi-award winning Country/ Folk singer/songwriter Greg Champion is to boot a guitarist, radio personality and athlete. Here he captures the beginnings of every lad’s fantasy. Alright, it was only in Mum’s backyard and his own folks’ bowling wasn’t too testing, but it is a start. Soon or perhaps one day, it could be at the WACA or the MCG, or even at Lord’s … r Australian Cricket Medley: Two songs mentioning Bradman, another in which he was co-writer, a further ditty urging a kangaroo to keep its tail aloft – as if it needed to be told – and an infectious, bouncy closing number to maintain Australia’s triumphalist tone in this musical jaunt down under. t The Barmy Army: Richard Stilgoe’s stirring anthem salutes those loyal and unquenchable followers of the national team, whose cacophonous chants continue to crush opposition supporters even – or should it be, especially? – when England manage to regularly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But after retaining the Ashes, that’s all going to change isn’t it …?

y That’s Not Cricket – from At Home Abroad: A 1935 Broadway musical revue starring Beatrice Lillie, Eleanor Powell and Ethel Waters. Music and lyrics came from that redoubtable pair, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, with direction from Thomas Mitchell and Vincente Minnelli, who was making his first outing on the Broadway stage. There were a number of exotic locations represented on this musical holiday cruise, as well as the more mundane. A London store was the setting for Eleanor Powell to have fun with At Home Abroad, an idiomatic summation of the manners and mores of the British. u Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket: The London Quartet’s recognition of Estonian sacred music composer Arvo Pärt’s minimalist style, in this appealing demisemi-drone which was put together at a stopover in Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 2nd, 2007. The towel – still available – was manufactured to explain to foreigners the fundamental comings and goings on the field of play. Game for a laugh … i Andy Flower Duet: ‘The Flower Duet’ from Act 1 of Lakmé by Léo Delibes, has, in its time, been purloined by a Dutch hip hop group, the makers of a Korean drama and for a film where - 11 -

two women are swimming naked under a glass-bottom boat in a piranha-infested lake. In this version, the roles of the daughter of a Brahman priest and her servant, normally sung by two sopranos, are taken by one soprano and a fella with a falsetto voice. And the tenor – or should it be counter-tenor? – of the libretto has been slanted rather cleverly by Mr. Stilgoe to warn of the potential perils that lie in wait for any England cricket manager … o Jerusalem: Once more into the breach, dear friends – foreign fields and all that, eh? Wait a minute. Hold on! Richard Stilgoe is still here. Bowling leg-spin and doosras, don’t you know? Dirty tricks. Altered the lyrics. Still. Rather splendid. What? p When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease: In essence, the cricket song. Composed by Roy Harper and released in 1975 with a haunting melody, simple uncluttered guitar accompaniment and comforting brass band cushion. The ‘Geoff ’and ‘John’ in the lyrics are Messrs. Boycott and Snow to whom the song is dedicated. Harper has related how inspiration came from two people: ‘my grandfather Frank Harper (who) allegedly once turned out for Lancs 2nd XI, but his mother

made him give it up because there was no money in it. Thereafter, he played in the Lancashire League and had a successful career in cotton’. And the other? ‘While listening to ‘Test Match Special’ on the radio one day, I heard John Arlott waxing lyrical about the time when every old cricketer must leave the crease … and a song was born on the spot. To both of these people I owe a deep gratitude’. a ‘Stop it, Aggers!’: An unexpected bonus. The inimitable Rory Bremner mimicking the imitable …

If I may be allowed a personal note. Over the years Cantabile – The London Quartet – and I have worked together many times, in broadcasts and in concerts, particularly cricket concerts. Of the latter, the repertoire therein is mostly the repertoire herein. One led to the other. To have had an association with such talented performers whose music gives continual delight, has been a great privilege and enrichment. I only hope all those who listen to this CD, which has been superbly produced by Nigel Short, will derive as much pleasure and enjoyment from it as it deserves. David Rayvern Allen. May, 2011.

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SONG TEXTS 1 Cricket Theme Medley Various, arranged by Alexander L’Estrange New Horizons: Theme from “Bluey” (Channel 9 Cricket) Brian L. Bennett © KPM Music Ltd / EMI Soul Limbo (Test Match Special, BBC) Steve Cropper / Al Jackson Jr. / Booker T. Jones / Duck Dunn © Irving Music / Al Jackson Jr. Music / BUG Music De Ghuma Ke (2011 ICC World Cup Theme) Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy © Universal Music India Dreadlock Holiday (10cc) Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman © EMI Mambo No.5 (Channel 4 Cricket) Lou Bega and Zippy Davids / Pérez Prado © Peer Music

A medley of modern cricket themes. ***** De Ghuma Ke Jiyo Khiladi Wahe Wahe Strike it Hard! Long Live the Wonderful Player!

*****

I’ll make a song of Hambledon, and sing it at “The George”, Of balls that flew from Beldham’s bat like sparks from Fennex’ forge; The centuries of Aylward, and a thousand guineas bet, And Sueter keeping wicket to the thunderbolts of Brett.

I was walkin’ down the street Concentratin’ on truckin’ right I heard a dark voice beside of me And I looked round in a state of fright I saw four faces one mad A brother from the gutter They looked me up and down a bit And turned to each other

Then up with every glass and we’ll sing a toast in chorus: “The cricketers of Hambledon who played the game before us, The stalwarts of the olden time who rolled a lonely down, And made the king of games for men, with Hambledon the crown.”

And I say, I don’t like cricket oh no – I love it ***** A little bit of Monica in my life A little bit of Erica by my side A little bit of Rita’s all I need A little bit of Tina’s what I see A little bit of Sandra in the sun A little bit of Mary all night long A little bit of Jessica here I am A little bit of you makes me your man

Although they sang the nights away, their afternoons were spent In beating men of Hertfordshire and flogging men of Kent, And when the flow’r of England fell to Taylor and his peers, The fame of Hambledonians went ringing down the years.

2 The Cricketers of Hambledon Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock © Augener Ltd. Composed for the Hampshire Eskimos’ New Year cricket match at Hambledon, 1929.

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So pass the bottle round again for drinking to the dead To Small and his companions all who gathered, lose or win, To take their fill of Nyren’s best when Nyren kept the inn.

’Tis a goodly company, Merry England. Let foes say what they will, Whilst Cricket we play Each summer day, ’Tis Merry England still

3 School Songs Medley

*****

Cricket Song: ‘Tis Merry England Still (Uppingham) Edward Thring / Christian Reimers

Willow the King is a Monarch grand; Three in a row his courtiers stand: Every day when the sun shines bright The doors of his palace are painted white, And all the company bow their backs To the King, with his collar of cobbler’s wax.

Willow the King (Harrow) E.E. Bowen / John Farmer On Surrey Hills (Banstead) J. M. Bastard / Orton Bradley Cricket Song: Hail to the Name of the Brave old Game (Sedburgh) R. St. J. Ainslie / P. A. Thomas

So ho! So ho! May the courtiers sing: Honour and life to Willow the King. *****

Cricket Song: Cricket is King (Eton) A. C. Ainger / Sir Joseph Barnby

’Neath summer suns we learn to watch The wily spinning slow: To cut, to drive, to hold a catch, To trundle out the foe; The neat pick up, the straight return. For slackers nought but shame, So long as Banstead hopes to earn A lease of cricket’s fame.

Five old School Songs to stir the spirit – from a more innocent age. ***** The Wickets are set, the field is met, Oh, the royal game and free! The School shall win, Short out, long in, - 15 -

Lustily sing the song Sing it once more, What ho for a halfer! Cart it for four.

until a match is won.

***** If you’ve England in your veins, And can take a little pains, In the sunny summer weather when to be indoors is sin, If you’ve got a bit of muscle, And enjoy a manly tussle, Then go and put your flannels on and let the fun begin – And hail to the name of the brave old game Wherever men are English and the flag’s unfurled You will there find cricket And the willow and the wicket, And there’s not a game to lick it in the whole wide world!

You must leave your honoured self, In the shed, upon the shelf, Nor think about your average, but do your level best; Keep your temper and be jolly And away with melancholy, And shut your mouth, and play the game, and never mind the rest: ***** The highlands of Harrow, The lowlands of Eton, The meads of old Winchester level and gay, Have witnessed whole days that can never be beaten, When two smart Elevens have met in the fray. You may talk of your tennis, your rackets and fives, The skill they demand, and the pleasure they bring; But you’re bound to admit in the course of your lives, They all have their merits, but Cricket is King

Let the lazy talk of luck, It was perservering pluck That saved the day at Waterloo and made the winning run! And the men with most of that’ll Be the men to fight the battle, For a match is never lost, my boy,

4 The Summer Game – from Cricket (Hearts and Wickets) Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber © M.S. / Really Useful Group - 16 -

Commissioned by H.R.H. Prince Edward for the Her Majesty The Queen’s 60th Birthday.

A sweet English rose whose hopes Stride out there with him

Act 1 Scene 1 Cricketers: Another golden afternoon An idyllic sporting scene A tapestry in green Willow heroes And in pavilioned splendour nationwide The game and its laws bestride The best of England

Now the test Of character and application At his best He’s man enough for any cause Round the ground In civilised appreciation Comes the sound Of dignified informed applause Bat on ball The noblest of all competition Players all In attitude and drive the same Steeped in grace And mindful of the game’s tradition They embrace The glory of the summer game

Bat on ball The manly thwack of blade on leather Players all So worthy of the crowd’s acclaim And although Protected in their regions nether Batsmen know The dangers of the summer game

5 Lillian Thomson Richard Stilgoe Sung and played by Richard Stilgoe © Richard Stilgoe

And walking bravely to the crease A man with much to do Earl: [Tim Rice] We’re 23 for 2, needing 90

A timeless piece of satire from a Master. Cricketers: And watching bravely from the boundary ropes

Every morning on the radio the news comes - 17 -

from Australia, The English batsmen once again have had a ghastly failure, ’Twas Lillian Thomson’s bowling once again caused the collapse, I always thought test cricket was intended just for chaps! But Lillian Thomson is Australia’s finest flower, A maiden bowling overs at a hundred miles an hour, She’s the fastest lady bowler that the World has ever seen, Her bumper’s awe-inspiring and her language far from clean.

’Cause under Lillian Thomson’s arm it’s like a chicken farm.

For to cricket we will go, will go, to cricket we will go.

This terrifying lady, what is more, is quite a looker, No wonder she demoralises every English hooker, No wonder every time the Pommie batting strength she trounces, Would you like facing up to Lillian Thomson’s massive bouncers?

We’ll go out on the common, boys, And there we’ll choose our ground: But first we’ll choose our umpire And then we’ll choose our men.

Lillian Thomson – a terrifying sight, Sometimes she swings them to the left, sometimes to the right, Sometimes you have to duck as they whistle through the air, In Lillian Thomson Australia had the World’s best opening pair!

Just imagine the reaction of Gooch or Gower or Gatting, As this six foot six of sheila runs up, do you wonder they hate batting? She hit Randall on the ankle, Then she hit him on the forehead, If she finds the happy medium She could hurt him something horrid.

6 Radnage Cricket Song Traditional Song from Buckinghamshire Song collected by Horace Harman – this is the first complete recording of one of the earliest songs connected with cricket.

She’s Lillian Thomson, the first of cricket’s Dames, A mixture of Joan Sutherland, Rolf Harris and Clive James, Don’t let Lillian Thomson bowl at you underarm,

Come all ye jolly cricketers whoever ye may be, I’ll have you pay attention and listen unto me.

And we have won the ball, The very next time we come this way We’ll give this house a call. 7 Four Jolly Bowlers The Yetties (Sartin / Shutler / McCulloch) © The Yetties From the John Arlott / The Yetties poetry and music album, ‘The Sound of Cricket’.

Well played my pretty partner, Be sure to bat upright; And when she comes with a hop-hop-hop We’ll cut her out of sight.

It’s of four jolly bowlers, four bowlers you shall hear, And we have been a bowling for many a long year, So we travel all the counties of England and around And all of our delight is to find good bowlin’ ground

Well played my pretty partner, See how she tips the bail; And if you keep them to that length I’m sure we shall not fail

One of us is very fast, one more bowls by strength, But the other two just use their brains and bowl with spin and length Our true delight is bowling, bowling without a doubt But our almighty treasure is to bowl them batsmen out

Well thrown my pretty partner, See how she nips the wind; And when she goes by the bowler We’ll all back up behind. And now the game is ended, boys, We’ll merrily drink and sing Good health unto our cricketers And glory to our Queen

The batsmen’s pleasure, boys, is the making of their runs The bowlers hate them having them – even made in ones We’ll bowl and bowl at them in village and in town

And now the game is ended, boys, - 18 -

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But most of all our treasure is to bowl their castles down

2. With more than one hundred nations now playing the wonderful | game of | cricket: it is necessary to write specific | rules for | cer-tain | territories

Sometimes we have money, boys, sometimes none at all But we can have good credit, boys, for we do bowl a ball We’ll quaff our beer most merrily and drink the health all round, Here’s a health to the batsmen’s wicket we knocks out of the ground

3. These rules must be taken with | all due | seriousness: honour, gentility, | and a | pinch of | salt. 4. The first MCC tour took place to the United States of America in eighteen | fifty | nine: nevertheless, they are still hopeless at the sport, | Ha ha | Ha ha | ha.

Down on the village green, me boys, we bowl the days away Faster, slower, swerve and spin, a work that’s truly play Oh hadn’t you been a bowler, that’s the man to be For of all the trades in England, it’s the bowler’s life for me

5. France, despite being silver medal holders of the Olympic | cricket | title: have | little . to be | proud of | either. 6. No suggestions shall be heeded from America as to how to “liven | up the | game”: things perhaps have gone far enough already, we are now playing at night, to piped music, in pyjamas, with dancing girls, white balls, no, scrub that, pink balls; that reminds me, | must | go and | wash my | box.

8 The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant The London Quartet / W.H. Havergal Some helpful tips for the perplexed. 1. Addenda to “The Laws of Cricket”, as written by the | M. C. | C.: Two thousand code, second e-|-ditión . two | thousand . and | three

7. My beloved spake, and | said un.to | me: “Oy you! You’re going to the cricket again, me and the | kids, we | ne-ver | see you..!” - 20 -

8. In Europe, it is important that each side respect one a-|-nother’s | territory: occupation of the crease will not be achieved by the laying down of towels, even in the morning session, and remember to polish the | bat, not | bat the | Polish. 9. The cut will be the most effective stroke in the | Middle-| East: Nota bene – some of the English team | shall be | half-| cut. 10. If, at the behest of the captain, any player should bowl re-|-pea.ted | no balls: the umpires shall have the power to empty their | pockets. of their | bundles. of cash.

| W G | Grace 9 You’ve Got to be a Cricket Hero (to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls) Al Sherman / Buddy Fields / Al Lewis Sung by Eliza Lumley Adaptation: Fred Tupper / Cliff Nichols © Leo Feist, Inc. N.Y. Song taken from the USA to pre-war Australia and filled with Test names.

Someone to love If you haven’t got a sweetie Here’s the reason why you haven’t got Someone to love Gentlemen from over all Australia Give us your attention while we hail ya You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls You’ve got to be a good run getter, you bet, If you wanna get, A sweetie to pet, The fact that you are rich and handsome, Won’t get you anything in curls. You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls Every girlie just raves over Woodfull, Wall, McCabe, Ponsford, Grimmet, And Chipperfield Barnet hits for all he’s worth, They are the rulers of the earth, The girls – they love ‘em so If the girls are what you want to get, man You must be a Brown or a Don Bradman You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls Imagine Oldfield keeping wickets so true,

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And Eb’ling, Bromley, And O’Reilly too, Our honour will be in safe keeping The pennant these boys will unfurl. You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls Just think of Darling Kippax and Fleetwood Smith, For they are the boys, Girls love from the jiff, Although they’re far away in England, They are the pride of the Test Match World, You’ve to be a cricket hero To get along with the beautiful girls 0 Jiggery Pokery Neil Hannon / Thomas Walsh Sung by The London Quartet with Eliza Lumley © Sony/ATV Music Publishing A modern re-telling of ‘that ball’ to Mike Gatting. ’Twas the first test of the Ashes series 1993 Australia had only managed 289 and we felt all was going to plan that first innings at Old Trafford. - 22 -

Then Merv Hughes and his handlebar moustache dismissed poor Athers.

So I stuck my left leg out and jammed my bat against it.

I took the crease to great applause, and focussed on me dinner. I knew that I had little cause to fear their young leg spinner. He loosened up his shoulders and with no run up at all, he rolled his right arm over and he let go of the ball.

But the ball it span obscenely and out of the rough it jumped, veered across my bat and pad, clipping my off stump. It took a while to hit me, I momentarily lingered, but then I saw old Dickie Bird slowly raise his finger.

It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery. How did he open me up? Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery. Out for a buggering duck. What a delivery, I might as well have been holding a contra bassoon. Jiggery pokery who was this nobody, making me look a buffoon? Like a blithering old buffoon.

It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery. How did he open me up? Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery. Out for a buggering duck. What a delivery, I might as well have been holding a child’s balloon. Jiggery pokery who was this nobody, making me look a buffoon? Like an accident prone baboon.

At first the ball looked straight enough, I had it in me sights, but such was its rotation that it swerved out to the right. I thought “Well, that’s a leg break, that’s easily defended.”

How such a ball could be bowled I don’t know, but if you asked me if it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past me.

How did he open me up? Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery. What in the buggery was his delivery? I might as well have been holding a cob of corn. Jiggery pokery, who was this nobody making me look so forlorn? I hate Shane Warne. q Village Rondo Matthew Holst, arranged by Chris Hatt Played by Chris Hatt This piano piece has the first known published picture of cricket on its title page. w Eton and Winchester R.T. Warner / F.S. Kelly A Song of the Eton & Winchester match. Though Itchen flows apart the Thames, Our Hearts flow to one sea; And rose and lily bind their stems In Friendship’s heraldry; For Winton smiled upon the child When Eton first arose,

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Who, greater grown, yet calls her own That first of friends and foes

As long as Thames is Thames, as long As Hills look down on Meads, Our hearts shall join in thought and song, Our bands shall vie in deeds! Let but our glance as far advance As backward it extends, Down Time’s long aisle we’d see them file, Elevens ever friends!

On Upper Club, elm-girded round, Now let the play begin; Let “Floreat Etona” sound, And may the best side win! To match in lists those Wykehamists Your weapons wisely wield, For, sooth, although they cannot row, ’Tis said that they can field.

e I Made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum’s Greg Champion © J. Albert & Son A brilliant depiction of back-garden cricket in Australia.

You sons of Wykeham, each a man, Whom Wykeham’s manners make, Now score your “centuries”, if you can, For your five centuries’ sake! And they who yield on fair New Field – Or be it guest or host – Need not resent the strife’s event When victors never boast.

As I went out to have a bat just the other day I had no idea what was coming my way I played a chanceless innings and I earned every run and I made a hundred in the backyard at Mum’s

As light blue sky and dark blue sea Horizoned blend their hues, So, light and dark, each year may we In Friendship join our blues. Let Chivalry, not Victory, Sound loudest in our ears; For generous foes give lusty blows, But still more lusty cheers!

Oh, I made a hundred in the backyard at Mum’s I clobbered and I crunched every fabulous run I toiled and I sweated and when the day was done I’d made a hundred in the backyard at Mum’s I started out real shaky-like just poking around me sister with her off-breaks well she had - 24 -

me pinned down but when me little brother bowled I gave him the clout and when we stopped for lunch I was twenty-four not out

Bowl a Ball, Swing a Bat Daniel Boone / Rod McQueen

Five songs from Australia, one by Bradman himself and the final one from the 1972 team. *****

Well then me Uncle Nev came on bowling his quicks but I was scoring freely with deflections and flicks as I passed me fifty I paused for a beer and when I hit the roof next door they all began to cheer

I used to sing about blackbirds, singing the blues all day, But now I’m in clover, now it’s all over, blue days be on your way, Sometimes the dark clouds gather, sometimes the skies are grey, But I’m all right when I see the light of a rainbow, then I’ll say –

I took some on the body but they didn’t hurt a bit I only hit the ball that was there to be hit I hooked ’em off me eyebrows and I tried to keep me head and the ton came up with a straight drive through the window of the shed

Every Day is a Rainbow Day for Me Jack Lumsdaine / Donald Bradman

Every Day is a Rainbow Day for Me, Since you came along it’s easy to smile you see, I never hurry, worry, when you are near, I know that soon I’ll see my rainbow appear, Like a hue from a beautiful sunset sea, There’s a light in your eyes, I’m happy as I can be, On your way, Mister Gloom, for you I’ve got no room, Every Day is a Rainbow Day for Me.

Our Eleven Jack Lumsdaine

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r Australian Cricket Medley

Take off your Hats to Bradman Edmund Luke / Dunbar Carey

Our Eleven, they did their best, Our Eleven, to win each test. Gee! But how Don Bradman wields the willow, Seems as light to Woodfull as a feather pillow,

Keep your Tail up Kangaroo Neil McBeath

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How they can bowl, How they can bat, Knock ’em round and never care for this or that Our Eleven, they’ll be in heaven when they’re bringing the Ashes home!

***** We’ve got a little song to sing, It’s just the very thing, Now cricket is on the wing We’ve got a little song to sing, And when the Tests commence we’ll sing together

***** The Lion whispered softly to the Aussie Kangaroo – “Who is this wonder batsman creating records new?” The ’roo responded proudly as they watched the thrilling game – “He’s the pride of all Australia – Don Bradman is his name!” Gee! What a lad! What a score! Cheer until your lungs are sore Take off your hats to Bradman, Don Bradman Letters gold spell his name Master of Old England’s game Take off your hats to Bradman.

Keep your tail up, Kangaroo Keep it up in the air and you’ll come smiling through Keep your tail up, Kangaroo Keep it up in the air, that’s all you’ve got to do Lancashire, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent, Show them all with the bat and ball that you’re one hundred per cent Oh, keep your tail up, Kangaroo Keep it up in the air and you’ll come smiling through

Don’t you think we play real fine? Come and cheer us on you’re welcome anytime There’s a light shining bright on the Aussie cricket team every day when we play We’ll have them in a fix, when we hit the ball for six ‘cos we’re out to win the game

Any fool can cheer a winning side But singing while you’re swallowing your pride Takes a certain character – a certain sort of guy It’s just as well it’s England who always make us cry. Other nations couldn’t stand the strain Of watching their team losing once again –

t The Barmy Army Richard Stilgoe played and sung by Richard Stilgoe, with The London Quartet © Richard Stilgoe The English glorying in public failure …

So paint a Union Jack upon your face And put your bet on England for a place. If it all goes pear-shaped and if the fates combine And we triumph by one run against the might of Lichtenstein, Twice as loud you’ll hear our voices ring Teaching our opponents how to sing –

The Barmy Army marches round the World With banners saying “Hallo Mum” unfurled Out there in the middle, our team is on the floor Nothing but a miracle can help us scrape a draw. But we support our country, right or wrong Which means we need a special sort of song.

The Barmy Army marches on Ev’ry hope of victory gone The Barmy Army stands the test Happy that when it comes to losing, When it comes to losing, When it comes to losing, We’re the best.

***** Smiling on his conquering way, Smashing records every day Say – hear them yell, Hear them shout – “Blimey, can’t you get him out?!” Take off your hats to Bradman.

Bowl a ball, swing a bat, we’ll show the others where it’s at, Every time we play our game, Hold a catch, win the match, even through the rain. Bowl a ball, swing a bat, tell us what you think of that, - 26 -

It isn’t easy when your team Makes a nightmare out of a dream It isn’t easy patiently Watching them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

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y That’s Not Cricket – from At Home Abroad Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz sung by Eliza Lumley © Chappell & Co Ltd / Arthur Schwartz Music Ltd

administered by Bienstock Publishing Company in the USA



and British Reversionary Territories – Used by permission



of Carlin Music Corp., London NW1 8BD.

A piece of musical cabaret from the 1930s … and still up-to-date … It was in ten sixty-six, That’s the date historians fix, If you know your statistics, The British nation won a famous war. How the Empire grew and grew, All the way to Timbuctoo! Little England, was the Kingland Every mariner’s return would bring land For Mother England All hail her great dominions here! All hail her sporting blood! There can’t be two opinions here, Her statecraft is a great craft, I’m proud to be allowed to Kowtow to Great Britain, A nation I am one of! A patriotic son of… - 28 -

That’s Not Cricket! It has a blatant air of brass It isn’t British upper-class To kick a fellow in the… Would you do it to the Prince of Wales? Would you do it to the Duke of York? That’s Not Cricket! It positively isn’t done The sort of thing to shun you will demur If you are a Britisher! Would you do it in Trafalgar Square? Would you do it on the Thames Embankment? Would you think of it in Windsor Castle? That’s Not Cricket!

and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out… That is the end of the game.

u Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket Anon. / The London Quartet With apologies to Arvo Pärt. All efforts have been made to trace the author of the text; any information would be very welcome!

i Andy Flower Duet Richard Stilgoe / Léo Delibes Sung by Richard Bryan and Eliza Lumley Words © Richard Stilgoe Mr. Stilgoe explores the pain of Andy Flower, with help from Delibes.

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out

Dear Andy Flower, Andy Flower, Poor Andy Flower, Andy Flower, Sitting on the England balcony for hour after bloody hour, Dear Andy Flower, Andy Flower, Poor Andy Flower, Andy Flower,

Finding out the hard way Managers have really very little power. Ah, all that practice, Ah, but the fact is, Ah, once they’re playing, You’re just praying, K.P. comes down the track – the ball gets thumped, Next ball same again but this time stumped Poor, poor Andy Flower, Poor Andy Flower, Who picked this shower? Don’t look so sour … Dear Andy Flower, Andy Flower, Poor Andy Flower, Andy Flower, Have they told you if we lose the Ashes, They send England Managers to the Tower. o Jerusalem Richard Stilgoe / C. Hubert Parry Sung by the Cricket Choir Words © Richard Stilgoe A stirring rendition of Jerusalem from the Cricket Choir, with additional Stilgoe wit. Bring me a ball that’s really old Bring me a pocket full of grit.

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And it could be me and it could be thee and it could be the sting in the ale, the sting in the ale.

I’ll slice and gouge (oh! Seam, unfold!) And soak the shiny side with spit – When one side’s rough, and one is smooth I’ll use my double-jointed hand, I and will bowl the doosra then And break the England opening stand

When the moment comes and the gathering stands and the clock turns back to reflect On the years of grace as those footsteps trace for the last time out of the act Well this way of life’s recollection, the hallowed strip in the haze The fabled men and the noonday sun are much more than just yarns of their days.

p When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease Roy Harper © District 6 Music Publishing A multi-London-Quartet version of the 1970s classic for voice and brass band.

a ‘Stop it, Aggers!’ Rory Bremner Rory relives some glorious commentary moments …

When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpires pocket away And all remains in the groundsman’s pains for the rest of the time and a day There’ll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin On a dusty pitch with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun. When an old cricketer leaves the crease, you never know whether he’s gone If sometimes you’re catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly mid on And it could be Geoff and it could be John with a new ball sting in his tail

The London Quartet would like to thank: David Rayvern Allen, Jonathan Knowles, Robin Tyson, Adam Chadwick and all at Lord’s Cricket Ground, The Lord’s Taverners, Katie Hickey-Walders, Jeremy Richardson at Jaded, Annick-Patricia Carrière, Thomas Van der Spiegel, Peter Martin Jacob, Dominique Dumond, Bertrand Henrion, Silvan Isenring, Sofie Haag, Ilker Ersil, Carole Sterckx, Lucy and all at The St. Bride Foundation, Michelle Greef, Sian Hatt, Clare Knowles, Hugh Wooldridge, Ashley Giles, Rupert and the annual Brocket / Market Porter match, the annual Tinkler / Porter-Thomas match, Woody and the Occasionals, the Rev. O. Wadell – and of course our families.

Lord’s Taverners The Lord’s Taverners is the official Charity of recreational cricket and the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports Charity. www.lordstaverners.org

Cantabile - The London Quartet is managed by Edition Peters Artist Management. www.editionpeters.com/epam

Recorded at: Air Studios, London – 24th, 25th and 28th February 2011 • Floating Earth, London – 1st March 2011 Mastered at - Floating Earth Producer - Nigel Short Recording engineer - Jake Jackson Assistant engineer - Chris Barrett Edited and mixed - Dave Rowell Post-production assistant - Craig Jenkins Programme concept - David Rayvern Allen Cover design and concept - Jonathan Knowles Photography - Jonathan Knowles Photographic post-production - Gareth Pritchard Photographer’s assistant - Rowan Fee Design and Artwork - Woven Design www.wovendesign.co.uk P 2011 The copyright in this recording is owned by Signum Records Ltd. © 2011 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of Signum Compact Discs constitutes an infringement of copyright and will render the infringer liable to an action by law. Licences for public performances or broadcasting may be obtained from Phonographic Performance Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from Signum Records Ltd.

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Cricket Theme Medley The Cricketers of Hambledon School Songs Medley (five school songs) The Summer Game – from Cricket Lillian Thomson Radnage Cricket Song (Bucks. folk song) Four Jolly Bowlers The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant You’ve Got to be a Cricket Hero … Jiggery Pokery Village Rondo Eton and Winchester I Made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum’s Australian Cricket Medley The Barmy Army That’s Not Cricket – from At Home Abroad Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket Andy Flower Duet Jerusalem When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease ‘Stop it, Aggers!’

Arr. A. L’Estrange Peter Warlock Various Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber Richard Stilgoe Trad. collected by Horace Harman The Yetties The London Quartet / W.H. Havergal Sherman / Fields / Tupper / Nichols Neil Hannon / Thomas Walsh Matthew Holst, arr. Christopher Hatt R.T. Warner / F.S. Kelly Greg Champion Various Richard Stilgoe Dietz / Schwartz Anon. / The London Quartet Richard Stilgoe / Léo Delibes Richard Stilgoe / C. Hubert Parry Roy Harper Rory Bremner

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