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Camille Skye sings "A Word on My Ear" by Flanders & Swann on her senior recital, accompanied by Marc Sanders. See text below.

A prisoner to rapture, by arduous duty pressed,
A slave to a longing that lingers in my breast.
Farewell my friends, adieu,
I cannot stay with you.
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Before I deliver my seventh encore, there's something I'd like to make clear.
They say I've brought pleasure to millions or more,
They say that my singing half won the last war when I sang to the troops in the rear.
I'm a dame with a name at the peak of my fame,
I'm known as the Empress of Song.
The critics "Bravo!"
and the critics should know,
But I cannot help feeling they're wrong.
I'm lauded, applauded, recorded, but hist!
I've a musical flaw that they seem to have missed.

I'm tone deaf, music means nothing to me.
It's only the way my accompanists play
That makes it appear I'm in key.
Stone tone deaf, can't tell a key from a clef.
I stand by the pianist watching his face,
For he's told me to start when it comes to the place
Where he'll give me a whacking great klunk in the bass
Because I'm tone deaf!

I'm tone deaf, never could understand pitch.
Some people, you know, can sing "So La Ti Do!"
And claim they can tell which is which.
Stone tone deaf, can't tell a B from an F.
Doctor Hollingsworth said, "Now I don't want to carp,
But if that's a B natural played on the harp,
Then you'd better be flat 'cause you're bloody B sharp!"
But then I'm tone deaf!

My technique is perfect...And likewise my larynx,
The art school has sculpted a bust of my pharynx,
While lovers of music all praise with conviction
My phrasing, my tone, my perfection of diction.
My trilling made Doctor Wolz swoon,
But I just can't remember a tune!

I'm tone deaf, but in most modern works for the voice,
The note that you hit doesn't matter a bit
So it's purely a personal choice.
Stone tone deaf, musically D-E-A-F
Perhaps the Met Opera can do without me,
But if I can live with an equity fee
I'll always get work from the dear BBC,
Because I'm tone deaf!