Gypsy Drinking Song - The Inspector General

Great and funny song from The Inspector General--Warner Bros. 1949. Starring Danny Kaye

LYRICS

Whisking through the whispering woods on a wild Romani pony
With a yak yak yak, and a yak se drak, and a yak se drak se donye.
Rides the gypsy
The gypsy
The gee-eee-eee-ipsy
The gip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ipsy.
The world thinks him careless and tipsy and free
But oh, the poor gypsy (scream, squeak, gasp)
His lot is not what it ought to be. For...
Night and day and day and night there's a man they're sick of obeying
With a whip
In his hand.
Over gypsy he stand.
And this is what he is saying:
Um. Hum. Hmm.
Play gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, laugh gypsy, cry gypsy, live gypsy, die gypsy
DRINK...gypsy.
Drink to goodbyes and drink to hellos.
Drink to the open; drink to the closed.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will drink with my nose.
And so we drink!
But first we sing.

-Pause while Danny Kaye teaches chorus to his audience. It consists of "zoom," "shtock, shtock," and "Ha!Ha!Ha!" and unintelligible something that my dad said was French.-

Play, gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, leap gypsy, dream gypsy, slide gypsy, slink gypsy
DRINK...gypsy.
And so we drink.
But first we play.

-Pause while Danny Kaye plays violin-

Play gypsy, sing gypsy, dance gypsy, smile gypsy, wink gypsy, blink gypsy, shrink gypsy
DRINK...gypsy.
And so we drink.
But first we dance.

-Pause while Danny Kaye does flaming sword dance-

And so we drink
To everyone we admire.
To the girl who sets your heart a glow and sets your heart on...FIRE!
And so we drink!

(from http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/25500/)

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Inspector General
• Danny Kaye
• traditional
• Romanian
• Gypsy
• drinking
• song
• funny
• slammusaran

[DamnedEyez]

I like it, I like it!

[xpalex1]

(high pitch tone)...LOVE IT!!!!

[orcsheaddriller]

the man with the group named "pussy cats" is having a great time.I mean just being part of a Kaye chorus must have been great fun!

[Twil1ght2000]

Lord this man's control over his voice is amazing!

[SpidersTheGreat]

"And soooo… weeee… don't drink!"

[scoutbearpatrol]

Danny Kaye is sooooooooooo funny!!!!

[pmcbarb]

just great, great actor, comic, singer,etc....Love ya Danny....xoxoxo



[RavenclawStudent]

I so wish I could do the jump at 1:43.

[TheHouseOffice]

1:26 best noice in the world T_T

[TheHouseOffice]

Gypsy DRINK.... O_O .... But First!

XDD

[SuperAb123456]

I love u Danny Kaye