ACT I - The Dinglebender Farm at Malaria Center, Long Island.
- No. 1 - Chorus
- "Oh, the heat! And the 'skeet! There is naught here to delight us. We're afraid, in the shade, that the cows will come and bite us.."
- No. 2 - Shady Lane Sextette
- "Peachy and pearly, sweet city girlie, if you have no other beau, may I be your Romeo? ..."
- No. 3 - Duett - Hubbs and Amanda
- "He was a rooster, chesty and haughty, wise to the world, blasé ... She was a bantam, giddy and naughty..."
- No. 4 - Song - Dinglebender and Chorus
- "I'm not stuck to be a farmer, for I've loafed hard my life, and all I have ever saved up is a mortgage and a wife..."
- No. 5 - Song - Holmes and Chorus
- "Will you step right up and buy a home in Dream-town? Just at present it is nothing but a map..."
- No. 6 - Song - Nancy
- "When a little maid suburban, all unused to manners urban, spends a week in New York town..."
- No. 7 - Song - Henri D'Absinthe
- "The maiden of my fancy is so divinely fair, the sunbeams love to linger, to nestle in her hair..."
- No. 8 - Finale Act I
- "March away, yes, march away; we gaily march with a rum-tiddy tum, tiddy tum, tra-ra. Dream-town gay awakes today..."
ACT II - The Principal Square in Dream City.
- Nos. 9 & 10 - Entr'acte and Chorus
- "You may rave over London, Vienna, Paree, but no town in the world equals this..."
- No. 11 - Song - D'Absinthe
- "It is nice to make love in most any old clime to a maid by the moon-lit sea..."
- No. 12 - Song - Amanda and Chorus
- "Before we got our money and Seth became a dude, he never thought it funny the way I took my food..."
- No. 13 - Song - Nancy and Girls
- "The moon am shinin' on de bayou tonight, come out mah lady, stickin' in de cabin ain't treatin' me right..."
- No. 14 - Chorus and Ensemble
- "Bound for the opera, here come the quality, dressed in their plumage so fine..."
- No. 15 - Duet and Dance - Nancy and Holmes
- "In that olla podrida called Vaudeville, some things could be spared with small loss..."
- No. 16 - Finale Act II
- "Pretty little Nancy, you are just my fancy, you're the girl for me..."
ACT III - "The Magic Knight" - an opera performed in the Dream City's opera house.
- No. 1 - Prelude
- No. 2 - Opening Scene
- "At the gath'ring here assembled, great composers' hearts have trembled, and librettists have grown prematurely old..."
- No. 3 - Song and Cadenzas - Elsa, King and Ensemble
- "A modest operatic maiden I, with downcast eyes of heav'nly blue..."
- No. 4 - Song - Elsa, King and Ensemble
- "In strenuous grand op'ra moment like this, when my last hope is pinned to a fairy..."
- No. 5 - Ensemble and Chorus
- "A fairy boat upon the tide appears to float with man inside, a noble knight on rescue bent..."
- Nos. 6 & 7 - Song - Lohengrin, Ensemble and Finale
- "A knight am I, of noble mien, who owes his birth to magic, a pampered pet and very debonair..."
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