No. 3 - Duet - "If you please"

from "The Mountebanks"
Words by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Alfred Cellier
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By Alfred Cellier
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[Minestra:] If you please, I'm now a member of your band-
[Risotto:] If you please, she's-
[Minestra:] Now allow me, pray, to speak.
I am married-
[Risotto:] She's my wife, you understand.
[Minestra:] If you interrupt, I'll leave you in a week.
[Risotto:] I really think I might-
[Minestra:] You are very impolite!
[Risotto:] But I wanted to explain-
[Minestra:] Now, there you go again!
[Risotto:] But I wanted to explain-
[Minestra:] Now, there you go again!
[Risotto:] to explain-
[Minestra:] there you go again!
[Risotto:] to explain-
[Minestra:] there you go again!
If you kindly will permit me,
I can perfectly acquit me:
I'm a lady!
[Risotto:] She's a lady!
[Minestra:] Very good, then I refrain!
If you kindly will permit me,
I can perfectly acquit me:
I'm a lady!
[Risotto:] She's a lady!
[Both:] Very good, then I refrain!

[Risotto:] Allow me to present to you my wife!
[Minestra:] I think you'd better keep her to yourself.
[Risotto:] She's the treasure and the pleasure of my life-
[Minestra:] I dare say, until she's laid upon the shelf!
[Risotto:] She's a poem, she's a song-
[Minestra:] You don't mean it- go along!
[Risotto:] I shall love her when she's grey!
[Minestra:] Will you really? I dare say;
[Risotto:] I shall love her when she's grey!
[Minestra:] Will you really? I dare say;
[Risotto:] I shall love her when she's grey!
[Minestra:] Will you really? I dare say;
With your snapping and your snarling!
[Risotto:] You're a dear, and you're a darling!
[Minestra:] Do you mean it?
[Risotto:] Yes I mean it!
[Both:] Oh, my darling! Oh, my dear!
[Minestra:] With your snapping and your snarling!
[Risotto:] You're a dear, and you're a darling!
[Minestra:] Do you mean it?
[Risotto:] Yes I mean it!
[Both:] Oh, my darling! Oh, my dear!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

Mountebanks #3 - If you please
Soft karaoke
Words
Minestra
Risotto
Right Hand
Left Hand
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