Life's A Game 1917 'Eileen'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Mar 2004

[Maude:] Again the ways of early days
we find ourselves repenting!
[Colonel:] Really?
[Maude:] Merely playing a childish game!
[Colonel:] Then please agree
to promise me that
there shall be no "cheating"
[Maude:] Surely! Purely!
Vic'try is our aim!
Now Greek meets Greek
[Colonel:] You hide - I'll seek.

[Maude:] Life's a game at best!
Play it then with zest!
Though the guerdon be great or small,
aim to win though you hazard your all,
for great affairs of state
are, by tricks of fate,
won or lost as the dice are tossed,
in the game of life!

Life's a game at best!
Play it then with zest!
Though the guerdon be great or small,
aim to win though you hazard your all,
for great affairs of state
are, by tricks of fate,
won or lost as the dice are tossed,
in the game of life!

[Pantomime Dance:]

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Life's A Game 1917
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
Music by Victor Herbert
© MCMXVII by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 15 March 2004 at 12.19
in association with Doug Grierson
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Joe Weber Presents a Romantic Comic Opera - "Eileen"
Life's a Game at Best. Duet. (Lady Maude and Colonel Lester)
Book and Lyrics by Henry Blossom. Music by Victor Herbert
Staged by Fred G. Latham
refrain with concluding pantomine dance
Victor Herbert - Fred G. Latham Publication:
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1917.
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