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MABEL: All is prepared, your gallant crew await you.
My Fred'ric in tears? It cannot be
That lionheart quails at the coming conflict?
FRED: No, Mabel, no.
A terrible disclosure
Has just been made.
Mabel, my dearly loved one,
I bound myself to serve the pirate captain
Until I reached my one and twentieth birthday!
MABEL: But you are twenty one?
FRED: I've just discovered
That I was born in leap year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till nineteen forty!
MABEL: Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling!
FRED: And so, farewell!
MABEL: No, no! Ah, Fred'ric hear me!
Stay, Fred'ric, stay!
They have no legal claim,
No shadow of a shame
Will fall upon thy name.
Stay, Frederic, stay!
FRED: Nay, Mabel, nay!
Tonight I quit these walls,
The thought my soul appalls,
But when stern duty calls,
I must obey.
MABEL: Stay, Fred'ric, stay!
FRED: Nay, Mabel, nay;
MABEL: They have no claim--
FRED: But duty's name.
MABEL: No shadow of a shame
Will fall upon thy name.
Stay, Frederic, stay!
FRED: I must obey.
MABEL: Ah, leave me not to pine
Alone and desolate;
No fate seemed fair as mine,
No happiness so great!
And Nature, day by day,
Has sung in accents clear
This joyous roundelay,
"He loves thee, he is here.
Fal, la, la, a,
Fal, a, la, la.
He loves thee, he is here.
Fal, la, la, la, Fal, la."
FRED: Ah, must I leave thee here
In endless night to dream,
Where joy is dark and drear,
And sorrow all supreme--
Where nature, day by day,
Will sing, in altered tone,
This weary roundelay,
"He loves theehe is gone.
Fal, la, la, la,
Fal, la, la, la.
He loves theehe is gone.
BOTH: Fal, la, la, la, Fal, la."
FRED: In nineteen forty I of age shall be,
I'll then return, and claim youI declare it!
MABEL: It seems so long!
FRED: Swear that, till then, you will be true to me!
MABEL: Yes, I'll be strong!
By all the Stanleys dead and gone,
I swear it!
BOTH: Oh, here is love, and here is truth,
And here is food for joyous laughter:
He/She will be faithful to his/her sooth
Till we are wed, and even after.
FRED: Oh, here is love, and here is truth,
MABEL: Oh, here is love, and here is truth,
FRED: She will be faithful to...
MABEL: He will be faithful to...
FRED: Till we are wed, and even after.
MABEL: Till we are wed,
FRED: And even after!
MABEL: Yes, even after!
BOTH: Oh, here is love, and here is truth,
And here is food for joyous laughter:
He/She will be faithful to his/her sooth
MABEL: Till we are wed, and even after.
BOTH: He/She will be faithful to his/her sooth
FRED: Till we are wed, and even after.
BOTH: Even after!
Oh, here is love, and here is truth,
Oh, here is love, is love!

By Arthur Sullivan
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Pirates Nos 21 & 22
Lyrics
Mabel
Frederic
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Piano Left
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