A Wilderness and Thou!

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

[Mathilde] If we are not married here, my dear,
whither shall we fly, you and I?

[Charteris] Through the hot and acrid land of sand,
To the cool and calm of the palm.
[Mathilde] Our idle place is some remote oasis,

[Charteris] Where to marry us it takes
just a brace of Arab Sheiks!
[Mathilde] Just a brace of Arab Sheiks!

[Both] Shall we wander far away to the Sahara?
That is quite an easy journey now.

[Charteris] It's a fashionable plan,
[Mathilde] We will take a caravan,

[Both] for we must be getting married any how.
And we only want a wilderness and Thou!

[Mathilde] To a truly moral home we'll roam,
Over seas of blue, I and you!

[Charteris] Yes, an isle of coral, green, serene,
Lying all alone and unknown.

[Mathilde] There the Chief will greet us,
if he does not eat us,

[Charteris] while his people take the chance,
of a native wedding dance,
[Mathilde] quite a sight a native dance!

[Both] By the tropic ocean I've a sort of notion,
Almost anything the laws allow,

[Charteris] so we'll charter a canoe,
]Mathilde] with a coconut or two,

[Both] for we must be getting married any how.
And we only want a wilderness and Thou!

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Quaker21 A Wilderness and Thou! 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 30 May 2001

Quaker21 A Wilderness and Thou! 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 30 May 01
Quaker21 A Wilderness and Thou! 1910
Music by Lionel Monckton
Lyrics by Adrian Ross
Copyright 1910 by Chappell and Co Ltd.
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 30 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones