The Girl and the Governor is a musical comedy with a libretto by S. M. Brenner and music by Julian Edwards which opened at the Manhattan Theatre, New York, on 4 February 1907.

Dramatis Personæ

MIDI Files

• Introduction

ACT I   -   The Fort, overlooking the Harbor of La Guayra.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus and Trio of High Commissioners - "Spanish warriors are we, all tried and true..."
• No. 2 - Song - Donna Isadora, with High Commissioners - "I am so fair that many a stare, I'm well aware, adores me..."
• No. 3 - Quintet - Pedrillo, Isadora, & High Commissioners - "That your purpose is quite hopeless, lady, surely you can see..."
• No. 4 - Song - Tacoma and Chorus - "If you've got a little job that needs attention..."
• No. 5a - Entrance of Governor - "Processions great in regal state may be a sight to bore you..."
• No. 5b - Song - Don Pascal and Chorus - "Of eminent men, you've heard them tell, in poetry, song and prose..."
• No. 6 - Song - Ruth and Chorus - "Love ye the blushing maid with timid graces whose drooping eyes betray her bashful fear?"
• No. 7 - Duet - Ruth and Dick - "Farewell, fond dreams of love's tomorrow, unwept, unhonored and unknown..."
• No. 8 - Song - Dick - "They say that a sailor can never be true, and that's but a saying, say I..."
• No. 9 - Trio - Dick, Don Pascal and Ruth - "I would like a frank opinion on this unexpected deal..."
• No. 10 - Finale Act I - "Ring out the merry wedding bells, the feast prepare,  a ceremony it foretells, surpassing fair..."

ACT II   -   Donna Isadora's Garden.

• No. 11 - Song - Tacoma and Chorus - "The moon shone bright one summer night, out on the gloomy marsh..."
• No. 12 - Septette - Dick, Don Pascal and others - "I timidly draw near, to make my rapture clear..."
• No. 12b - Song - Pascal - "I have heard of a nation far over the sea called the land of the brave and the home of the free..."
• No. 13 - Duet - Carita and Pedrillo - "A moment to scheme, a moment to act, a moment of apprehension..."
• No. 14 - Chorus of Girls - "Oh, wond'rous circumstance to see!  A loving woman far from plain..."
• No. 15 - Song - Isadora and Chorus - "On the roof of a little red school-house perched a weather-cock gilded and fair..."
• No. 16 - Song - Dick - "When maids beguile with dimpled smile and sparkling repartee, with glances sly from twinkling eye..."
• No. 17 - Quartette - Ruth, Dick, Isadora and Vascalla - "Guess me, and you gain me!  Who am I? ..."
• No. 18 - Song - Don Pascal - "I'm no delicate young flower, doomed to wither in an hour..."
• No. 19 - Finale Act II - "Though we're filled with indignation, we can't check our cachination, ha, ha, ha!..."

ACT III   -   Banquet Room in the Governor's Palace, La Guayra.

• No. 20 - Duet - Carita, Pedrillo and Chorus - "We dance at a wedding so laughably queer, it seems like a singular joke..."
• No. 21 - Song - Tacoma - "Let gloomy thoughts go hang!  Have done with carking care!  A panacea here I hold..."
• No. 22 - Quintette - Isadora, Tremolo, Staccato, Vascalla and Tacoma - "Women are weak and men are strong..."
• No. 23 - Song - Don Pascal, with chorus - "A beautiful young heiress loved an honest lad but poor..."
• No. 24 - Finale Act III - "Procession great in regal state may be a sight to bore you..."

External Link

Vocal Score at MUSOPEN

Julian Edwards at Wikipedia

American Musical Theatre

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