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No. 7 - Trio and Air - Rip Van Winkle and the Children
| Rip: | Ere the marriage contract is drawn, What have you got to live upon? |
| Alice: | You silly man, we'll live with you! |
| Hans: | Of course! of course! that's what we'll do! |
| Rip: | A careful wife ne'er lives in folly When her good man's at work away. |
| Alice: | You'll see how neat I'll keep my dolly! |
| Hans: | I'll bring her birds' nests ev'ry day! |
| Rip: | But if my girl's her husband flouting, Or if my son-in-law's too gay? |
| Alice: | Even then, he'd ne'er find me pouting! |
| Hans: | And I'd just let her flout away. |
| Rip: | But days are long in summer time? |
| Alice: | We'll go a-nutting in the wood! |
| Rip: | But when they're white with winter's rime? |
| Hans: | O sliding's famous, snow-balling good! |
| Childen: | We'll be happy as man and wife! |
| Alice: | And we'll seek together Lilies by the lake, Berries in the heather, Fireflies in the brake! |
| All: | Yes! we'll seek together Lilies by the lake, Berries in the heather, Fireflies in the brake, Berries in the heather, Fireflies in the brake! Berries in the heather, Fireflies in the brake! |
| Rip: | Brave boy! and thou, my flaxen-headed daughter! Why must I tell you these fair things shall die? The berry red, the lily by the water; That for you dark days may be nigh! These little heads, now golden, Silver'd one day may be, Trembling, and frail, and olden, (That day I may not see!) But though flowers may perish, And though youth may decay, Still you love, dear ones, cherish, For love is young for aye! |
| Children: | We'll love each other, and for aye! We'll love each other, and for aye! |
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British Musical Theatre | Rip Van Winkle
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