Doing Alright in my Dreams (Patter)

[dukealien]

I love G&S. I was in the P of P and Yeoman of the Guard. This isn't patter, just a thought on what you wrote.

Fine to take delight in things,
in dreams that bring no screams.
Despite that one piece is de-lish
it gives no right to the whole dish.


Dale

Oh, no, I'd never lay claim to the whole dish - particularly the lyric soup-plate. 

Hope G&S fandom isn't dying out:  My father was arranging for a medical procedure during which he'd have to remain awake; the nurse offered to set up a musical track for his listening diversion.  He asked for Gilbert & Sullivan.  The nurse (whom I'd have called a sweet young thing, if such language were still politically acceptable these days - no obvious piercings or tats) thought for a long moment and confessed, "I don't think I know that group."  True story.

@ronsaik - Forced rhyme is something of a feature in the patter song, though I surely abuse it.   Hear, for example, I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General , listening for the hypotenuse.  (Also for Dale, of course.)