Songtexte The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 2: "When a wooer goes a-wooing" - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , Thomas Allen , Jean Rigby , Sir Neville Marriner

When a wooer goes a-wooing
Nought is truer than his joy

Maiden hushing all his suing
Boldly blushing, bravely coy

Bravely coy
Boldly blushing
Boldly blushing
Oh, the happy days of doing

Oh, the happy days of doing
Oh, the sighing and the suing
When a wooer goes a-wooing
Oh, the sweets that never cloy

When a brother leaves his sister
For another, sister weeps
Tears that trickle, tears that blister
'Tis but mickle sister reaps

'Tis but trickle, 'tis but blister

Oh, the doing and undoing

Oh, the doing and undoing
Oh, the sighing and the suing
When a brother goes a-wooing
And a sobbing sister weeps

When a jester is outwitted
Feelings fester, heart is lead
Food for fishes, only fitted
Jester wishes he was dead

Food for fishes, only fitted
Jester wishes he was dead
Oh, the doing and undoing
Oh, the sighing and the suing
When a jester goes a-wooing
And he wishes he was dead
Oh, the doing and undoing
Oh, the sighing and the suing
When a jester goes a-wooing
And he wishes he was dead
He wishes he was dead