Pretty As A Picture 1913 'Sweethearts'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 04 May 2004

It doesn't matter what is done
by Nature for a pretty one,
She's never satisfied
till she her hand has tried;
A touch of rouge applied with skill
will make her more like Nature still;
Her cheeks, a shelllike pink,
are all her own, we think.
And as this goddess goes her way,
she chuckles as she hears us say:

"She's pretty as a picture,
blooming as a rose.
Grace in ev'ry movement,
charm in ev'ry pose. Ha! Ha!
O clever little woman,
We all understand
that Nature cannot make you
what you can do by hand.

When nature draws the picture tree,
the woman adds a line or two;
she steals the color scheme
of peaches mixed with cream,
when Nature's done the best she could,
the eyebrow's arched as eyebrows should;
likewise the hair is made
a most bewitching shade;
no painting's done with so much care,
no wonder all the men declare:

"She's pretty as a picture
blooming as a rose.
Grace in ev'ry movement,
charm in ev'ry pose. Ha! Ha!
O clever little woman,
We all understand
that Nature cannot make you
what you can do by hand.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Pretty As A Picture 1913
Lyrics by Robert B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
© 1913 by G. Schirmer
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, Londonm UK
on Tuesday 04 May 2004 at 17.36
in association with Doug Grierson
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Presented by Werba & Luescher with Christie Macdonald
in the cast - "Sweethearts" - Comic Opera in Two Acts
Book by Harry B. Smith & Fred. De Gressac
Lyrics by Robert B. Smith. Music by Victor Herbert.
Fred. De Gressac - Robert B. Smith - Victor Herbert Publication:
New York: G. Schirmer, 1913.
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