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No. 1: CHORUS
"Won't it be a pretty wedding"
SCENE . – Market place of Speisesaal , in the Grand Duchy of Pfennig Halbpfennig. A well, with decorated ironwork, up L.C. GRETCHEN, BERTHA, OLGA , and other members of ERNEST DUMMKOPF’S theatrical company are discovered, seated at several small tables, enjoying a repast in honour of the nuptials of LUDWIG , his leading comedian, and LISA , his soubrette.
| Sopranos. |
Altos, Tenors & Basses. |
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Won’t it be a pretty wedding? |
| Won’t it be a pretty wedding? |
Won’t it be a pretty wedding? |
| Will not Lisa look delightful? |
Such a pretty, pretty wedding, |
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Will not Lisa look delightful? |
| Smiles and tears in plenty shedding – |
Smiles and tears in plenty shedding – |
| Which in brides of course is rightful. |
Smiles and tears in plenty shedding – |
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Which in brides of course is rightful |
| One could say, if one were spiteful, |
One could say, if one were spiteful, |
| Contradiction little dreading, |
Contradiction little dreading, |
| Her bouquet is simply frightful – |
Her bouquet is simply frightful – |
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simply frightful, frightful – |
| Still, ‘twill be a pretty wedding! |
Still, ‘twill be a pretty wedding! |
| Oh, ‘twill be a pretty wedding! |
Oh, ‘twill be a pretty wedding! |
| Such a pretty, pretty wedding! |
Such a pretty, pretty wedding! |
| Such a pretty wedding! |
Such a pretty wedding! |
| Such a charming, charming wedding! |
Such a charming, charming, cahrming wedding! |
| Elsa. |
If her dress is badly fitting,
Theirs the fault who made her trousseau.
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| Bertha. |
If her gloves are always splitting,
Cheap kid gloves, we know, will do so.
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| Olga. |
If upon her train she stumbled,
On one’s train one’s always treading.
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| Gretchen. |
If her hair is rather tumbled,
Still, ‘twill be a pretty wedding!
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| All Four. |
| Such a pretty, pretty wedding. |
| Sopranos. |
Altos, Tenors & Basses. |
| Such a very, very pretty wedding. |
Such a very, very pretty wedding. |
| Won’t it be a pretty wedding? |
Won’t it be a pretty wedding? |
| Oh, 'twill be a pretty wedding? |
Oh, 'twill be a pretty wedding? |
| Such a pretty, pretty wedding! |
Such a pretty, pretty wedding! |
| Such a pretty wedding! |
Such a pretty wedding! |
| Such a charming, charming wedding! |
Such a charming, charming, charming wedding! |
| Here they come, the couple plighted – |
Here they come, the couple plighted – |
| On life’s journey gaily start them. |
On life’s journey gaily start them. |
| Man and maid for aye united, |
Man and maid for aye united, |
| Till divorce or death shall part them. |
Till divorce or death shall part them. |
| Man and maid for aye united, |
Man and maid for aye united, |
| Till divorce, divorce or death shall part them. |
Till divorce, divorce or death shall part them. |
| Here they come, the couple plighted. |
Here they come, the couple plighted. |
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19 June, 2006
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