List of patter songs

Pre-Gilbert and Sullivan

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

  Gilbert and Sullivan

• Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box – "My Master Is Punctual"
• Gilbert and Sullivan : The Gondoliers – "In enterprise of martial kind"
• Sullivan: The Gondoliers – "Rising early in the morning"
• Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore – "When I Was a Lad"
• Sullivan: Iolanthe – "When you're lying awake"
• Sullivan: The Mikado – "As someday it may happen"
• Sullivan: Patience – "If you want a receipt for that popular mystery"
• Sullivan: Patience – "If you're anxious for to shine"
• Sullivan: Patience – "So go to him and say to him"
• Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance – "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" Tom Lehrer wrote a pastiche of the song called "The Elements".
• Sullivan: Princess Ida – "If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am"
• Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My boy, you may take it from me"
• Sullivan: Ruddigore – "Henceforth all the crimes that I find in the Times"
• Sullivan: Ruddigore – "My eyes are fully open to my awful situation". This song was adapted for use in the Broadway revivals of The Pirates of Penzance and Thoroughly Modern Millie as "The Speed Test".
• Sullivan: The Sorcerer – "My name is John Wellington Wells"
• Sullivan: Trial by Jury – "When I, good friends, was called to the bar"
• Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "I've Jibe and Joke.... I've wisdom from the East and from the West"
• Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard – "Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon"

  After G&S: selected showtunes

• Ashman & Menken: "Now " from Little Shop of Horrors
• Lionel Bart: "Reviewing the Situation" from Oliver!
• Cy Coleman: "Museum Song" from Barnum
• Comden & Green: "If" 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
• Cole Porter: "Let's Not Talk About Love" from Let's Face It!
• Stephen Schwartz: "All for the Best" from Godspell
• Stephen Schwartz: "War is a Science" from Pippin
• 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: "Franklin Shepard, Inc." from Merrily We Roll Along
• Kurt Weill: "Tschaikowsky " from Lady in the Dark
• Meredith Willson: "Rock Island " and "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man

  After G&S: selected popular and classical music

• Scrubs: "The Rant Song" from the 2007 episode "My Musical"
• Animaniacs: "Yakko's World", among others
• Barenaked Ladies: "One Week" from "Stunt"
• Billy Joel: "We Didn't Start the Fire" from Storm Front
• Noël Coward: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
• Lucky Starr: "I've Been Everywhere"
• 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