No. 17 - Duet - Teresa and Minestra

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 I can catch this jolly Jack-Patch-
[Teresa:] Ah, me! my heart is weary, oh!
[Minestra:] He'll go for a year with a flea in his ear!
[Teresa:] And my days are dark and dreary, oh!
[Minestra:] He'll find his joke is a pig in a poke-
[Teresa:] For love my soul is aching, oh!
[Minestra:] Though scarce a score, I'm seventy-four!
[Teresa:] And my heart, my heart is breaking, oh!
[Minestra:] When a woman has come to seventy year
It's well to be withered and old and blear;
But when she is only a score like me,
It's better a fair young girl to be!
[Teresa:] 'Tis well to be young when all is well,
And lovers are true to the tales they tell;
[Ensemble:] But ah! when love is an upas tree,
'Tis better an aged (fair young) dame (girl) to be!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

mount_17
Soft karaoke
Words
Teresa
Minestra
Right Hand
Left Hand
Karaoke Track