It Needs No Poet 1897 'Prince Ananias'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Mar 2004

[Louis:] It needs no poet, gentle maid
to eulogise your charms.
[Ninette:] The compliments, my lord,
you've paid, fill me with strange alarms,
[Louis aside:] As appetite so keen have I,
no strange alarms can fall,
[Louis to Ninette:] A certain something
in your eyes, to give me hope, a thrill.

[Both:] I do not think you flatter,
to make a good impression,
or deal in gilded chatter,
to gain your heart's possession,
I do not think you flatter,
to make a good impression,
or deal in gilded chatter,
to gain my heart's possession.

[Louis:] I cannot give
the love you crave,
for Valentine I wed....
[aside:] Oh I shall fill an early grave,
if I'm not shortly fed.
[To Ninette:] Your lovely cheeks
are like the rose,
when kissed by morning dew,
give that I ask in me repose,
a dinner roast or stew.

[Ninette:] He can't help but
rhapsodise on my lovely Grecian nose.
For his ecstasy implies
for his ecstasy implies,
I'm a perfect lovely maid,
from my eyebrows to my toes,
from my eyebrows to my toes,
my eyebrows to my toes, my toes.

[Both:] My heart is palpitating,
caused by his bold confessions,
he is so fascinating,
he's gained my heart's possession.

My heart is palpitating,
caused by his bold confession,
he is so fascinating,
he's gained my heart's possession.
I cannot give the love you crave
for Valentine I wed,
I cannot give the love you crave for
Valentine I wed.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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It Needs No Poet 1897
Lyrics by Francis Neilson
Music by Victor Herbert
© 1897 by Edward Schuberth & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 20 March 2004 at 07.45
in association with Doug Grierson
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As first produced at the Broadway Theatre, N.Y.
by The Famous Bostonians [W.H. MacDonald]
"Prince Ananias" - An Original Comic Opera.
Libretto by Harry B. Smith. Music by Victor Herbert.
Victor Herbert Publication: New York: Edward Schuberth & Co., 1897
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