No. 15 - Duet - Minestra and Risotto - "I'd be a young girl"

from "The Mountebanks"
Words by W. S. Gilbert
Music by Alfred Cellier
Sequenced by Colin Johnson

By Alfred Cellier
Generated by NoteWorthy Composer

[Minestra:] I'd be a young girl if I could!
[Risotto:] You're very good- you're very good:
But that unlikely I'm afraid is!
[Minestra:] I'd be as lovely as a rose!
[Risotto:] So I suppose- so I suppose.
And so, no doubt, would most old ladies!
[Minestra:] I'll rouge my face, make up my eyes,
With cunning dyes- with cunning dyes,
My venerable looks anointing.
I'll try my best your heart to thrill.
[Risotto:] I'm sure you will, my love, but still
It is a little, little disappointing!
It is a little,
[Both:] Just a little, a little,
a little, little disappointing!
[Minestra:] It is a little
[Both:] Just a little, a little,
A little, little disappointing!

[Risotto:] You're certain that you're wide awake?
There's no mistake- there's no mistake?
Your rugged wrinkles you can't thin off?
[Minestra:] I've scrubbed, and scrubbed, and scrubbed away
For half a day, for half a day,
Until I've almost scrubbed the skin off!
So gouty and rheumatic I,
That though I try, that though I try,
I scarce can fasten my shoe buckles.
[Risotto:] My bride could write (so gouty she)
"No Popery! No Popery!"
On all the walls with all her knuckles!
But it is a little...
[Both:] Just a little, a little,
a little, little disappointing!
[Minestra:] It is a little
[Both:] Just a little, a little,
A little, little disappointing!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

No. 15 - Duet - "I'd be a young girl if I could"
Soft karaoke
Words
Minestra
Risotto
Right Hand
Left Hand
Karaoke Track