A Song is a poem.

The music man by 1962

 Poetry is the expression of what the poet sees and feels in connotative and rhyming language. Literally, it means that poetry is a form that can be sung as it is. 

 I recently discovered a songbook  which my kid sang at the music summer camp.

I'd like to write it here for a moment. 

  In 1949, many people, including the songwriter Frank Loesser, suggested that Willson write a musical about his early life in Iowa. So using his memories of Mason City, Willson created The Music Man. Each character in The Music Man's River City is based on someone he knew from Mason City. The Music Man is an American theatre classic.

 He wrote other musicals, too, but The Music Man is by far his most successful. The Music Man was a hit when it premiered on Broadway in 1957. The show won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and ran for three years.

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The Wells Fargo Wagon

Oho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a comin' down the street, oh please let it be for me. 
Oho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a comin' down the street, I wish, I wish I knew what it could be.

I got a box of maple sugar on my birthday. 
In March I got a grey mackinaw.
And once I got some grapefruit from Tampa. 

Montgom'ry Ward set me a bathtub and a cross cut saw. 

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Gary, Indiana 

Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, 
Indiana let me say it once again. 
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, 
Indiana, that's the town that knew me when.

If you'd like to have a logical explanation how I happened on this elegant syncopation. 
​I will say without a moment of hesitation, 

There is just one place that can light my face. 

Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome. 
But Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, my home sweet home!

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Pick a Little/ Good Night Ladies

Pick a little, talk a little, pick a litte, 
talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more. 
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a litte, 
talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, 
talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more. 
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a litte,  
talk a little, cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep

Good night ladies
Good night ladies
Good night ladies
We're going to leave you know. 

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Good Night, My someone

Goodnight, my someone, goodnight, my love. 
Sleep tight, my someone, sleep tight, my love.
Our star is shining its brightest light, for good night, my love, for goodnight.
Sweet dreams be yours dear, if dreams there be.
Sweet dreams to carry you close to me. 
I wish they may and I wish they might
Now goodnight, my someone, good night!

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76 Trombones

Seventy six trombones led the big parade,
with a hundred and ten cornets close at hand. 

They were followed by rows and 
rows of the finest virtuosos the
cream of every famous band.
Seventy six trombones caught 
the morning sun, with a 
hundred and then cornets right 
behind.

There were more than a 
thousand reeds springing up
​like weeds there were horns of every shape and kind.