Chants and Cantor

At a lonely monastery on a small off-shore island of Australia the monks honored the breaking day every morning by gathering in the great hall where the head monk would stand before them and chant

“Good mo-or-ning”

and the monks would in turn chant

“Good mo-or-ning”

Then in the dusk of the evening they would again gather and the head monk would chant

“Good ev-en-ing”

and so too the monks in turn would chant

“Good ev-en-ing”

On one morning when a newly arrived monk from around the world arrived and joined in the morning chant,  evidently jet-lag affected him for he inadvertently chanted “Good ev-en-ing” in return.   The head monk without pause cantorially chanted

♫ “Some one chant-ed ev-en-ing”

to the well known tune from the musical “South Pacific”.