No. 11 - Song - Nanna

from "His Excellency"
Music by Frank Osmond Carr
Words by W. S. Gilbert
Sequenced by Colin Johnson
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By F. Osmond Carr
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[Nanna:] My wedded life
Must ev'ry pleasure bring
On scale extensive!
If I'm your wife
I must have ev'rything
That's most expensive-
A lady's maid-
(My hair alone to do
I am not able)-
And I'm afraid
I've been accustomed to
A first-rate table.
These things one must consider when one marries-
And ev'rything I wear must come from Paris!
Oh, think of that! Oh, think of that!
I can't wear anything that's not from Paris!
From top to toes
Quite Frenchified I am,
If you examine.
And then- who knows?
Perhaps some day a fam--
Perhaps a famine!
My argument's correct, if you examine,
What should we do, if there should come a f-famine!

Though in green pea
Yourself you needn't stint
In July sunny,
In Januaree
It really costs a mint-
A mint of money!
No lamb for us-
House lamb at Christmas sells
At prices handsome:
Asparagus,
In winter, parallels
A Monarch's ransom.
When purse to bread and butter barely reaches,
What is your wife to do for hot-house peaches?
Ah! tell me that! Ah! tell me that!
What is your wife to do for hot-house peaches?
Your heart and hand
Though at my feet you lay,
All others scorning!
As matters stand,
There's nothing else to say
Except-- good morning!
Though virtue be a husband's best adorning,
That won't pay rates and taxes-- so, good morning!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

No. 11 - Song - Nanna
Soft karaoke
Words
Nanna
Right Hand
Left Hand