Finale Act 2.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. May 2001.

[Boris] Why stand you staring like a thing of stone?
I tell you I'm declaring the truth,
and truth alone.

[Ivan] It means our ruin!
[Hopper] Nothing doin'!

[Boris] Why stand you staring like a thing of stone?
I tell you I'm declaring the truth,
and truth alone.

I swear by Nirvana
and all the gods above,

this villain Americana,
He has robbed me of my love!

[Arif] Take care! for I can also swear!
She is the wife of him who stands there!

[Tatiana] I can swear by the gods above
This villain Americana,
he has robbed him of his love!

Yes, he stole her!
He stole her from her legal lord and master,

and behind these gloomy walls
he's cast her!

He stole her,
and there behind these gloomy walls he's cast her!

[Knopf] But my dear brother,
You had one wife,
why did you want another?

[Boris] Do as you are bidden!
The woman you have hidden,

Bring her out!
without a doubt!

[Ivan] I rather I would die,
[Tatiana] Soon shall he hold her in his arms!

In his arms he'll hold her pretty charms!
He'll hold her pretty charms!

Heaven give him strength
to bear the bliss,
the bliss of her kiss!

It shall be thine,
when you shall hold your loving arms

shall hold her pretty charms.
within your arms!

[Boris] And now we've waited long enough:
Where is she?

[Arif] She's here!
[Boris] I was wrong to have accused you!

[Helen] Accused him of what?
[Hopper] Nothing at all!

[Boris] I'm sorry that I abused you
[Helen] Abused him, but why?

[Hopper] Come help me stall!
[Ivan] Yes, it looks like a squall!

[Hopper] You see, dear, it was just this way,
I'm telling you straight and true;

He thought I'd stolen his bride of a day,
and hidden her here in this harem queer.

[Arif] But you see, it was only you!
[Helen] What me?

[Arif] Yes, he made me a present of you!
[Helen] Made him a present why,
what do you mean?

[Arif] Why, he sold you to me for a harem queen.
[Helen] He sold me?

[Arif] or rather, I'll say he bribed me
to take you for pay;

[Helen] So that's what they meant
when they kept me there,
and sprayed me with scent and perfumes rare!

[Arif] they were making you ready for Allah!
[Helen] Thaddeus, how could you dare!

For charms are fair when they are hidden,
it is a sign men will be flocking,

and silken yashmaks lifting;
For charms are fair when hidden!

Why, the man is insane!
All his reasons he'll tell me,

no doubt he will tell me:
He cannot explain!

'Tis the end so farewell!
'Tis the end so goodbye!

When we wake from this spell,
we'll be strangers at last,
you and I;

all the joys we have known
will be withered like roses,

like a rose that dies
'neath a grey autumn sky;

and tho' Spring come again,
we shall seek them in vain.

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Katinka119 Finale Act 2 1915 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 May 2001

Katinka119 Finale Act 2 1915 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 May 2001
Katinka119 Finale Act 2 1915
Music by Rudolf Friml
Lyrics by Otto Hauerbach
Copyright 1915 by G. Schirmer, Inc.
sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones