Women! Women! Women! 1907 'The Merry Widow'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - Sep 2003

[Danilo:] What a question!
[All:] What a question!
[Danilo:] How to treat 'em?
[All:] Goodness knows!
[Danilo:] For they change each time
you meet 'em - and with ev'ry wind that blows!
[Zeta:] You can woo them
[All:] and pursue them
[Zeta:] try to win them
[All:] and succeed;
[Danilo:] but to keep them
when you've won them
that's a problem,
it is indeed!
Which card to play
and when to play it?
I don't know and nor do you!
[Zeta:] Just what to say
and how to say it?
[All:] Don't we wish
we knew that, too!
[St. Brioche:] Try telling 'em
you idolize 'em
[All:] That one
they'll have "heard before..!"
[Cascada:] Be arrogant
and criticize 'em
[All:] Promptly you'll be shown the door!
[Danilo:] With adulation
try to please 'em
then they put you in your place!
[Zeta:] In desperation
seize and squeeze 'em!
[All:] Do that and they slap your face!
[Cascada:] Cajoling, pleading,
slaving, sighing
[All:] All to win a tender smile;
We don't succeed,
but keep on trying,
wond'ring if the game's worth while

Which and what
how and why
where and when?
Knowing not, we just try,
try again!
Though it's plain they'll remain unimpressed,
we must do our level best!
Is it fair we're at their
beck and call;
and, to please, on our knees
we would crawl?
We can strive,
we can work,
till they drive us beserk,
but we still get no thanks at all!

[Danilo:] Women, Women, Women,
Women, Women, Women, Oh! Oh!

[All:] Which and what
how and why
where and when?
Knowing not, we just try,
try again!
Though it's plain they'll remain unimpressed,
we must do our level best!
Is it fair we're at their beck and call,
and, to please, on our knees
we would crawl?
We can strive,
We can work, till they drive us beserk,
but we still get no thanks at all!

Which and what
how and why
where and when
Knowing not, we just try,
try again!
Though it's plain they'll remain unimpressed,
yet we do our level best!
They're aware we're at their beck and call,
and, to please, on our knees we would crawl!
We can strive,
we can work,
till they drive us beserk,
but we still get no thanks at all!

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
timp
bassoon
piccolo
piano t clef
oboe
pizz str
glock
tenor sax
harp
drum
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Women! Women! Women! 1907 Lehar
Music by Franz Lehar
Lyrics by Phil Park
copyright 1958 Glocken Verlag Ltd.
sequence, arrangement and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne
on Wednesday 17 September 2003 at 19.07
in association with Doug Grierson
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