No. 6 - Recit and Song - "Bedecked in fashion trim"

from "The Mountebanks"
Words by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Alfred Cellier
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By Alfred Cellier
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[Alfredo:] Teresa! little word so glibly spoken!
Take pity on a heart that's all but broken!
Teresa! one-word poem trisyllabic;
An Eastern ode in sensuous Arabic!
Would that thou wert as tender in thy nature
As in thy soft and tender nomenclature!

Bedecked in fashion trim,
With ev'ry curl a-quiver;
Or leaping, light of limb,
O'er rivulet and river;
Or skipping o'er the lea
On daffodil and daisy;
Or stretched beneath a tree,
All languishing and lazy-
Whatever be her mood;
Be she demurely prude,
Or languishingly lazy;
My lady drives me crazy
In vain her heart is wooed,
Whatever be her mood!

What profit should I gain
Suppose she loved me dearly?
Her coldness turns my brain
To verge of madness nearly.
Her kiss- though, Heaven knows,
To dream of it were treason-
Would tend, as I suppose,
To utter loss of reason!
My state is not amiss;
I would not have a kiss
Which, in or out of season,
Might tend to loss of reason:
What profit in such bliss?
A fig for such a kiss!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

Mountebanks #6 - Bedecked in fashion trim
Soft karaoke
Words
Alfredo
Right Hand
Left Hand