The Messenger Boy

• Original London Production (1900)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1901)
  New York, NY

The alternate songs titles are all best-guess. The songs that are marked as "Status unknown" are titles listed in the Broadway production but not the London production, however have the same authors as the London production. Therefore, it is unclear if these are alternate titles to existing songs or new songs. The songs marked as "Added to the Broadway production" are presumed to have been written later as the authors for those songs are not listed in the London credits.

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Original score

• To our Charity Bazaar, Come buy! buy! buy!
  • aka Charity Bazaar [no note]
• If there's anybody pining for a reputation shining
• Supposing a sweet little maid, well-bred, rather clever and fair
• Oh, I'm very much afraid there's a lot of scandal made
• Oh, my dearest, ere I go, there's one thing I want to know
• If you want to go by a proper P. & O.
• I am a smart little sort of a chap, very obliging and active
• I'm a little messenger, summon'd by a call
  • aka The Messenger Boy [no note]
• Tarentella
• Tra la la la la la la la
• I met a Miss Mary Maclean on the boat, alone and in charge of the skipper
• I will bet the crowd a dinner that I get to Egypt first!
• You talk about detectives in a story, that guess whatever people say or do
• Oh, Captain, we're sure you can tell us a lot, we want your advice if you please
• Cast the moorings free, warp the vessels round
  • aka Off to Cairo [no note]
• Sheltered from the noon-day glare, civilized society gazes on the passers by
  • aka Sheltered from the Noonday Glare [no note]
• My name it is Hooker Pasha, no family tree can I muster
• Now this trip you should take
• There's a girl you may have met, if you have you won't forget; she is Maisie
• Dervish Dance
  • aka Dervish [no note]
• Oh, when de moon am rising
• Now how shall we try to stop this lad?
• I'm famous Captain Pott
• Let the trumpets and the drums, as they blare and roll and rattle, greet the Governor that comes
• Oh, if you please, I'm Rameses
• The boys go marching down the street, with a tramp, tramp, tramp
  • aka The Messenger Boy March [no note]
• Although I'm British born, I do not look with scorn on foreigners as such
• We will take our wedding trip upon the Nile

Status unknown

• Ask Papa
• Bradshaw
• Aspirations
• The Mummies
• The Volunteers
• They Are All After Pott
• To the Paris Exposition
• Wash! Wash! Wash! (In the Wash)

Added to Broadway production

• A Perfectly Peaceful Person
• Can't You Take My Word
• Has Anybody Seen My Cat?
• Maisie