Love Is A Story That's Old 1913 'The Madcap Duchess'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 30 Aug 2004

The story of love has a pedigree
that dates from the primal birth,
as old as the sands of the oldest sea,
as old as the hills of the earth.
Some tales we hear many times rehearsed
are spoiled in the telling we know;
but this is the same as they told it first,
ten thousand years ago!

Love is a story that's old, old,
love is a story that's old;
but the best one that ever was told, told,
the best one that ever was told.
For ages it has stood, you see,
on Time's dim page enrolled;
it's old because it's good, you see,
and good because it's old!
It's old because it's good, you see,
and good because it's old!

Wherever you turn you will hear the tale,
and ever the same it goes,
as old as the song of the nightingale,
as now as the bloom of the rose.
'Tis heard in the laugh of the merry maid,
the vow of the sighing swain;
they've told it before,
but are not afraid
to tell it once again!

Love is a story that's old, old,
love is a story that's old;
but the best one that ever was told, told,
the best one that ever was told.
For ages it has stood, you see,
on Time's dim page enrolled;
it's old because it's good, you see,
and good because it's old!
It's old because it's good, you see,
and good because it's old!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Love Is A Story That's Old 1913
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by David Stevens
© 1913 by G. Schirmer
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 30 August 2004 at 17.29
in association with Doug Grierson
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"The Madcap Duchess" -  A Comic Opera.
The Book and Lyrics by David Stevens and Justin Huntly McCarthy
The Music by Victor Herbert.
Justin Huntly McCarthy - Victor Herbert Publication: New York
G. Schirmer, 1913.
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