Seventy-six Trombones Lyrics - Music Man

Harold: 

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade 

With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand. 

They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuo- 

Sos, the cream of ev'ry famous band. 

Seventy-six trombones played the counter part. 

while one hundred and ten cornets played the year. 

they modestly took my place as the one and only bass as I ompa ompa up and down the square 

There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons 

Thundering, thundering louder than before. 

Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons, 

Each bassoon having it's big, fat say! 

There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery 

Thundering, thundering louder than before 

Clarinets of ev'ry size 

And trumpeters who'd improvise 

A full octave higher than the score!