Words and Music (musical) - Songs

Songs

(In the order printed in The Lyrics of Noël Coward, pp. 114–18):

  • Maggie (opening chorus)
  • Débutantes
  • Let's Live Dangerously
  • Children of the Ritz
  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen
  • Planters' Wives
  • Let's Say Good-bye
  • The Hall of Fame
  • Mad About the Boy
  • Journey's End
  • Housemaids' Knees
  • Three White Feathers
  • Description of Ballets
  • Something to Do With Spring
  • The Wife of an Acrobat
  • The Younger Generation
  • Midnight Matinée
  • The Party's Over Now

The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs.

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