Canterbury Tales

• Original London Production (1968)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1969)
  New York, NY
• National Tour (1969)
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1979)
• Broadway Transfer (1980)
  New York, NY

Click on the title for info on the song.

Original score

• Song of Welcome
• Good Night Hymn
• Canterbury Day
• Pilgrim Riding Music
• I Have a Noble Cock
• Darling, Let Me Teach You How to Kiss
• There's the Moon
  • aka Nicholas' and Alison's Love Duet [no note]
• Some Call It Love
• Love Will Conquer All
• Chanticleer and Pertelote Duet
• Chanticleer, Pertelote, Fox Trio
• Fill Your Glass
  • aka Beer Is Best [no note]
• Come on and Marry Me, Honey
• Mug Dance
• When I Was a Boy
• Where Are the Girls of Yesterday?
• Hymen, Hymen
• If She Has Never Loved Before
• I'll Give My Love a Ring
• Pear Tree Quintet
• I Am Forever Dated
  • aka I Am All A-Blaze [no note]
• Love Pas De Deux
• What Do Women Most Desire?
  • aka What Do Women Want? [no note]
• April Song
• Sit Down Upon My Knee

Added to Broadway production

• It Depends on What You're At

Based on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from a translation by Nevill Coghill.

Prior to this musical, the music was used as background on the recording Canterbury Pilgrims, with narration by Martin Starkie. E/Polydor 583 008 (S); G/Deutsche Grammophon 139 380 (S) (in English).

"Sit Down Upon My Knee" is the only selection for the pardoner and the summoner characters in 'The Pardoner's Tale" that has been traced. It is very possible there were more selections in this tale, but there were no song titles in the London program when the production opened, and "The Pardoner's Tale" was cut within a few months. As far as we have been able to find, the secion was cut before song titles were listed in the program.