The Minute Waltz

I've got a minute, just a little minute

I have only got a minute, just a minute

I have only got a minute, that is all the time I have

To sing this tiny little Minute Waltz

It isn't easy, but I'll try then

I've got to say goodbye, but first I'll take a minute

And put in it every note that Chopin wrote

And thus I'll sing the little Minute Waltz

And hope that I can sing with no faults

I know it's difficult, I'll give it every last breath

That I've got within my body

Hope that my performance won't be very shoddy

Singing every note will not do wonders for my throat

I probably will end up hoarse

But then of course I will have done it

And a wager that I made I will have won

It's not the money but the satisfaction

That I get from winning money on this silly kind of bet

Though this kind of solo wasn't his intention

Chopin isn't here to make an intervention

So with your permission and no intermission

I will sing each note that the composer wrote

And as you can hear my trilling isn't very thrilling

But no one can say I wasn't very willing

To attempt a thing that's not been done

And just for fun to sing the Minute Waltz

As I sing, the seconds fly

All too soon the minute waltzes by

And now I ask you, where am I?

Halfway through the tune and I'm falling far behind

Oh, Mr. Leader, wave your stick

And end this section, no one will notice

If suddenly we're double quick

It will sound like just a rash and a passion

I have less than thirty seconds

Less than thirty seconds, less than thirty

Less than half a minute, I have less than thirty seconds

I have less than half a minute

To complete this little Minute Waltz

Remember every note that's in the score while

The sands of time are now a-pouring

So I'll hurry and I'll try hard not to worry

If I stumble over minute but I've time to schmaltz