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    Sixteen Going On Seventeen | My Favorite Things]



    Dixit Dominus   [print | translation]

    Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
    Sede a dextris meis
    Donec ponam inimicos tuos
    Scabellum pedum tuorum.

    Virgam virtutis tuae
    Emitet Dominus ex Sion,
    Dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.
    Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae,
    in splendoribus sanctorum:
    Ex utero ante luciferum genui te

    Iuravit Dominus et non paenitebit eum:
    Tu es sacerdos in aeternum
    Secumdum ordinem Melchisedech.
    Dominus a dextris tuis,
    Confregit in die irae suae reges.
    Iudicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas,
    Conquasabit capita in terra multorum.
    De torrente in via bibet,
    Propterea exaltabit caput.

    Gloria Patri, et Filio, et spiritui Sancto:
    Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper,
    Et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

    source: VESPRO Lyrics

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    Sound of Music   [midi | print]

    The hills are alive with the sound of music
    With songs they have sung for a thousand years
    The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
    My heart wants to sing every song it hears

    My heart wants to beat like the wings of a bird
    That rise from the lake to the trees
    My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
    From a church on a breeze
    To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
    Over stones on its way
    To sing through the night
    Like a lark who is learning to pray

    I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
    I know I will hear what I heard before
    My heart will be blessed
    With the sound of music
    And I'll sing once more

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    Maria   [print]

    Berthe: She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee; her dress has got a tear
    Sophia: She waltzes on her way to mass and whistles on the stairs
    Berthe: And underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair
    Catherine: I've even heard her singing in the abbey
    Agatha: She's always late for chapel
    Sophia: But her penitence is real
    Berthe: She's always late for everything!
    Catherine: Except for every meal
    Berthe: I hate to have to say it, but I very firmly feel
    All four: Maria's not an asset to the abbey

    Margaretta: I'd like to say a word in her behalf
    R. Mother: Then say it Sister Margaretta
    Margaretta: Maria makes me laugh!

    R. Mother: How do you solve a problem like Maria
            How do you catch a cloud and pin it down
    Margaretta: How do you find the word that means Maria
    Catherine: A flibbertigibbet
    Sophia: A will-o'-the-wisp
    Berthe: A clown

    R. Mother: Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
            Many a thing she ought to understand
    Berthe: But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
    R. Mother: How do you keep a wave upon the sand
    Margaretta: How do you solve a problem like Maria
    R. Mother: How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand

    Sophia: When I'm with her I'm confused,
            out of focus and bemused,
            and I never know exactly where I am...
    Agatha: Unpredictable as weather
    Catherine: She is flightly as a feather
    Margaretta: She's a darling
    Berthe: She's a demon
    Margaretta: She's a lamb

    Sophia: She'd out pester any pest; drive a hornet from it's nest
    Agatha: She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
    Margaretta: She is gentle; she is wild
    Catherine: She's a riddle; she's a child
    Berthe: She's a headache
    Margaretta: She's an angel
    R. Mother: She's a girl...

    All: How do you solve a problem like Maria
         How do you catch a cloud and pin it down
         How do you find the word that means Maria
    Catherine: A flibbertigibbet
    Margaretta & Sophia: A will-o'-the-wisp
    Berthe: A clown
    All: Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
            Many a thing she ought to understand
    R. Mother: But how do you make her stay
    Berthe: And listen to all you say
    Margaretta: How do you keep a wave upon the sand
    All: Oh how do you solve a problem like Maria...
            How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand

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    I Have Confidence   [midi | print]

    What will this day be like, I wonder
    What will my future be, I wonder...

    It could be so exciting
    To be out in the world to be free
    My heart should be wildly rejoicing
    Oh what's the matter with me

    I've always longed for adventure
    To do the things I never dared
    Now here I am facing adventure
    Then why am I so scared

    Captain with seven children...
    What so fearsome about that

    Oh I must stop these doubts all these worries
    If I don't I just know I'll turn back
    I must dream of the things I am seeking
    I am seeking the courage I lack

    The courage to serve them with reliance
    Face my mistakes without defiance
    Show them I'm worthy
    And while I'll show them...I'll show me...so...

    Let them bring on all their problems
    I'll do better than my best
    I have confidence they'll put me to the test
    But I'll make them see I have confidence in me

    Somehow I will impress them
    I will be firm but kind
    And all those children, heaven bless them
    They will look up to me and mind me

    With each step I am more certain
    Everything will turn out fine
    I have confidence the world can all be mine
    They'll have to agree I have confidence in me

    I have confidence in sunshine
    I have confidence in rain
    I have confidence that spring will come again
    Besides which you see I have confidence in me

    Strength doesn't lie in numbers
    Strength doesn't lie in wealth
    Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers
    When you wake up, wake up!

    It tells me all I trust I leave my heart to
    All I trust becomes my own
    I have confidence in confidence alone...

    I have confidence in confidence alone!
    Besides which you see I have confidence in me...

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    Sixteen Going On Seventeen   [midi | print]

    Rolfe: You wait little girl on an empty stage
              For fate to turn the light on
              Your life little girl is an empty page
              That men will want to write on

    Liesl: To write on...

    Rolfe: You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby it's time to think
              Better beware, be canny and careful, baby you're on the brink
              You are sixteen going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line
              Eager young lads, and roues and cads
              Will offer you food and wine
              Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men
              Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your ken
              You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do
              I am seventeen going on eighteen, I'll take care of you

    Liesl: I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive
              Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe
              I am sixteen going on seventeen, innocent as a rose
              Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those
              Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men
              Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my ken
              I need someone older and wiser, telling me what to do
              You are seventeen going on eighteen, I'll depend on you


    Second version: Maria & Liesl

    Maria: You are sixteen going on seventeen
             Waiting for life to start
             Somebody kind who touches your mind
             Will suddenly touch your heart

    Liesl: When that happens, after it happens
             Nothing is quite the same
             Somehow I know I'll jump up and go
             If ever he calls my name

    Maria: Gone are your old ideas of life
             The old ideas grow dim
             Lo and behold you're someone's wife
             And you belong to him
             

             You may think this kind of adventure
             Never may come to you
             Darling, sixteen going on seventeen
             Wait a year...

    Liesl: I'll wait a year...

    Maria: Just wait a year...

    Maria and Liesl: Or two

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    My Favorite Things   [midi | print]

    Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
    Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
    Brown paper packages tied up with strings
    These are a few of my favorite things

    Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
    Door bells and sleigh bells
    And schnitzel with noodles
    Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
    These are a few of my favorite things

    Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
    Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
    Silver white winter that melts into spring
    These are a few of my favorite things

    When the dog bites
    When the bee stings
    When I'm feeling sad
    I simply remember my favorite things
    And then I don't feel...so bad



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    TRIVIA:
    The first musical number in the scene, "The Sound Of Music", was the final sequence shot in Europe before the cast and crew returned to Los Angeles. It was filmed late June and early July of 1964. Despite of the warm and sunny appearance, Julie Andrews notes that she was freezing running up that mountain over and over again. Plus, the downdraft of the jet helicopter nearly knock her off her feet. Ms. Andrews quotes: "They had to do this shot about ten times and finally I got so angry I yelled, that's enough!"
    TRIVIA:
    Marni Nixon, who played as Sister Sophia, was Audrey Hepburn's singing voice when she did the movie My Fair Lady.