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No. 25: Song (Murphy)
Music by Edward German
MIDI File [20KB, 3' 58"] | Murphy. | |
| Good-bye, my native town — Wrapped in your summer gown, No tears are running down Your pretty face, You cannot feel nor hear, Why should you shed a tear? How can you know how dear, how dear I hold this place? It's only you and I That have to say good-bye; Ah! won't you heave one sigh When I depart? Why do you look so gay? Why do you look so gay? so gay? |
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 in the original production. |
Won't you pretend to say Good-bye, my native place — |
| Murphy. | (spoken) Won't you be saying "Good-bye", Molly? |
| Molly. | (spoken) No, Pat. |
| Murphy. | (spoken) It's only a little word. |
| Molly. | (spoken) Yet its a mighty big lump it makes in my throat wid stickin' there! I'll not say "Good-bye", Pat, because — |
| Murphy. | (spoken) Yes, dear — |
| Molly. | (sings) Because I love you! |
No. 26: Duet (Molly and Murphy)
Music by Edward German
| Molly. |
| I love you! I love you! What joy can compare With all the sweet madness That lovers may share? For an ocean of sadness A world of despair, Are lost in "I love you, I love you, my darlin', I do!" Ah! where is the world, dear, The world that we knew, The old world, the cold world, Before I met you? We've done with the old world, We're off to the new — Because, dear, I love you, I love you, my darlin', I do! Our love is our new world, |
| Molly. | Murphy. |
| I love, I love you! | |
| I love, | I love you, I love you! |
| I love! | What joy can compare |
| What joy can | With all the sweet madness |
| compare, | That lovers may share? |
| With all | For an ocean of sadness, A world of despair |
| the madness That lovers | Are lost in "I love you," |
| may share, That lovers | I love you, |
| may share, That lovers, | Are lost in "I love you," |
| that lovers may share? | Are lost in I love! |
| I love you, I love you! | I love you, I love you! |
| (Exeunt.) |
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