[PW] Yeomen of the Guard

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

I think Peter is trying to split hairs that haven't been plucked.  The issue was not the song "I Have a Song to Sing, O", but the title of the operetta in which it appears.
 
It is true that during the development of "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan came to Gilbert, puzzled by the odd meter of the lyrics to the "Song to Sing, O" number, and asked him to hum what he had in mind.  Gilbert, after having said that "it is a rash man who asks me to hum", hummed to him the Cornish song he'd heard his boat crew sing (something close to "Green Grow the Rushes, Ho"), and Sullivan, duly inspired, went off and subsequently composed the music.  But Sullivan was definitely the composer of the song.
 
None of which relates to the correct title of the show.  I wouldn't bother the list with this, but it's Labor Day weekend and things are very slow.
 
All the best, Peter!  Your attention to detail is, in fact, much appreciated.
 
-- Tom 

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