A Runaway Match.

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

[Mathilde] If this was two hundred years ago,
in days of powder and patch,

we two could have fallen in love, I know,
and struck up a runaway match!

[Phoebe, Charteris, and Tony] A runaway,
runaway match!

[Charteris] I'd call for you at a postern door,
discreetly left on the latch,

then Gretna Green in a coach and four,
and ho! for a runaway match!

[All four] A runaway, runaway match!
A runaway, runaway match for us;
of the good old galloping kind,

when a guardian, arm'd with a blunderbuss,
is following close behind!

And all in a fury and fume and fuss,
the pair he's trying to catch,

by firing his gun away,
after the runaway,
runaway, runaway match!

[Phoebe] Then I'd be your faithful lady's~maid,
a bundle of gowns I'd snatch,

including a hoop and a white brocade,
to wear at the runaway match!

[Phoebe, Charteris, and Tony] The runaway,
runaway match!

[Tony] I'd drive the coach over ruts and rocks,
in a wig that's known as a scratch.

I'd look very striking on the box,
in the light of a runaway match!

[All four] A runaway, runaway match!
A runaway, runaway match of old,
when the horses tremble and pant;

and we're always told that the coachman bold
must marry the confidante!

One wedding'll make many more, we're told,
and all be wed in a batch,

if law hadn't done away
now with the runaway,
runaway, runaway match!

[They Dance]

Soft karaoke
Words
treble clef 1
treble clef 2
lyric line
fr hrn
syn str 1
syn brass 1
Quaker04 A Runaway Match 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 May 2001

Quaker04 A Runaway Match 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 May 2001
Quaker04 A Runaway Match 1910
Music by Lionel Monckton
Lyrics by Adrian Ross
Copyright 1910 by Chappell and Co.
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 21 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones