List of patter songs

This is a list of some of the best known patter songs.

Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan

 * Auber: Le domino noir – "Je suis sauvée enfin"
 * Cornelius: Der Barbier von Bagdad – "Bin Akademiker, Doktor und Chemiker"
 * Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore – "Udite, Udite, o rustici", middle section (Dulcamara)
 * Donizetti: Don Pasquale – "Cheti, cheti, immantinente", final section (duet for Don Pasquale and Doctor Malatesta)
 * Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila – Farlaf's Rondo «Близок уж час торжества моего» (Farlaf)
 * Mozart: Marriage of Figaro – "La vendetta, oh, la vendetta", final section (Bartolo)
 * Mozart: Don Giovanni – "Fin ch'han dal vino" (Don Giovanni)
 * Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – "Solche hergelaufne Laffen", especially the final section of the aira (Osmin)
 * Mozart: "Clarice cara mia sposa", aria for Tenor, K. 256
 * Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia – "Largo al factotum", final section (Figaro); "A un dottor de la mia sorte" (Bartolo)
 * Rossini: La Cenerentola – "Sia qualunque delle figlie", final section (Don Magnifico)
 * Rossini: "La Danza"
 * Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims – "Medaglie incomparabili" (Don Profondo)
 * Offenbach: La jolie parfumeuse – "Neighbors Chorus"

Gilbert and Sullivan

 * Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box – "My Master Is Punctual" (Mr. Cox)
 * Gilbert and Sullivan (referred to below as "Sullivan"): The Gondoliers – "In enterprise of martial kind" (Duke of Plaza-Toro, with Duchess, Casilda and Luiz)
 * Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "Rising early in the morning" (Giuseppe)
 * Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore – "When I Was a Lad" (Sir Joseph)
 * Sullivan: Iolanthe – "Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest" (the "Nightmare song"; Lord Chancellor)
 * Sullivan: The Mikado – "As someday it may happen" (Ko-Ko)
 * Sullivan: Patience – "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery" (Colonel Calverley)
 * Sullivan: Patience – "If you're anxious for to shine" (Bunthorne)
 * Sullivan: Patience – "So go to him and say to him" (Bunthorne and Lady Jane)
 * Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" (Major-General Stanley)
 * Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am" (King Gama)
 * Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me" (Robin)
 * Sullivan: Ruddigore – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times" (Robin)
 * Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation" (Robin, Despard, and Margaret).
 * Sullivan: The Sorcerer – "My name is John Wellington Wells" (J. W. Wells)
 * Sullivan: Trial by Jury – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar" (the Learned Judge)
 * Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "I've Jibe and Joke. ... I've wisdom from the East and from the West" (Jack Point)
 * Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Jack Point)

After G&S: selected showtunes

 * Ashman & Menken: "Now (It's Just the Gas)" from Little Shop of Horrors
 * Lionel Bart: "Reviewing the Situation" from Oliver!
 * Cy Coleman: "Museum Song" from Barnum
 * Comden & Green: "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from Two on the Aisle
 * Frankel & Korie: "The Revolutionary Costume" from Grey Gardens
 * Rupert Holmes: "Both Sides of the Coin" from Drood
 * Eric Idle: "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" from Spamalot
 * Kander & Ebb: "The Money Song" from Cabaret
 * Kander & Ebb: "We Both Reached for the Gun" from Chicago
 * George Gershwin: "The Mophams" from Primrose
 * George Gershwin: "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess
 * Bock & Harnick: "Tonight at Eight" from She Loves Me
 * Jerry Herman: "Penny in My Pocket" from Hello, Dolly!
 * Jonathan Larson: "Therapy" from Tick, Tick... Boom!
 * Lerner & Loewe: "Why Can't the English?", "I'm an Ordinary Man" and "A Hymn to Him" from My Fair Lady
 * Roger Miller: "The Royal Nonesuch" from Big River
 * Laurence O'Keefe: "Show You a Thing or Two" from Bat Boy: The Musical
 * Cole Porter: "Let's Not Talk About Love" from Let's Face It!
 * Stephen Schwartz: "All for the Best" from Godspell
 * Sherman Brothers: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Another Hundred People" and "Getting Married Today" from Company
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Now" from A Little Night Music
 * Stephen Sondheim: "The Worst Pies In London" and "A Little Priest" from Sweeney Todd
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Mr. Goldstone, I Love You" from Gypsy
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Your Fault" from Into the Woods
 * Stephen Sondheim: "Franklin Shepard, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along
 * Jeanine Tesori: "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie adapts portions of "My eyes are fully open" from Ruddigore
 * Kurt Weill: "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" from Lady in the Dark
 * Meredith Willson: "Rock Island (opening sequence)" and "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man
 * David Yazbek: "Model Behavior" from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

After G&S: selected popular and classical music

 * Scrubs: "The Rant Song" from the 2007 episode "My Musical"
 * Animaniacs: "Yakko's World" (1993), among others
 * Barenaked Ladies: "One Week" from Stunt (1998)
 * Billy Joel: "We Didn't Start the Fire" from Storm Front (1989)
 * Noël Coward: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (1931)
 * Tom Lehrer: "The Elements" (1959) uses the tune of the "Major-General's Song"
 * Lucky Starr: "I've Been Everywhere" (1959 by Geoff Mack)
 * Phineas and Ferb: "History of the Tri-State Area", "I Really Don't Hate Christmas"
 * Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" from We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
 * Only Murders in the Building: "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?" (2023)