RB02 In 1688 The Rebel Maid

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Apr 2005

[Dorothy:] How glad I am that you and I
were born just when we were, you know.
[Percy:] T'was well arranged, I can't deny;
I've often told my parents so.
[Dorothy:] Our birthdays might have chanced
to fall two hundred years ago or more.
[Percy:] When London Town was very small,
and things were slow and folks a bore.
[Dorothy:] Oh, tell me,
did they fall in love
two hundred years ago?
[Percy:] If there were pretty girls like you,
I'm sure they did, you know!
[Dorothy:] For things may change as years go by;
yet strangely to relate,
they loved long since as we do now,
in sixteen eighty eight,
In sixteen eighty eight.
[Percy:] Oh, what a rush from morn till night,
we live at such a fearful rate.
[Dorothy:] And very soon drop out of sight,
unless we're smart and uptodate.
[Percy:] Of course it's only foolish talk,
but things progress at such a pace.
[Dorothy:] They say that soon we'll never walk,
but merely fly from place to place.
Oh tell me, will they fall in love
when folks begin to fly?
[Percy:] If you're a cherub up aloft
they'll love you, passing by,
[Dorothy:] Through ev'ry age, till end of time,
the humble and the great,
will fall in love as we have done,
[Both:] in sixteen eighty eight,
in sixteeen eighty eight.

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RB02 In 1688 The Rebel Maid
Music by Montague F. Phillips
Lyrics by Gerald Dodson
© MCMXXI by Chappell & Co. Ltd.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 23 April 2005 at 17.06
in association with Doug Grierson
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