Neil Mackie feat. Anthony Michaels-Moore, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Robert Lloyd, Sylvia McNair, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Well sung and well danced!" Lyrics

Lyrics The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Well sung and well danced!" - Neil Mackie feat. Anthony Michaels-Moore, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Robert Lloyd, Sylvia McNair, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner




Well sung and well danced
A kiss for that pretty maid
Away with it!
Clear the rabble
Now, my girl, who are you?
And what do you here?
May it please you sir, we are two strolling players, Jack
Point and I, Elsie Maynard, at your worship's service
We go from fair to fair, singing and
Dancing and playing brief interludes
And so we make a poor living
The two of you, eh?
Are you man and wife?
No, sir
For though I'm a fool, there is a limit to me folly
Her mother, old Bridget Maynard, is abed with fever
Hark ye, my girl
Your mother is ill?
Sorely ill, sir
And needs good food and many things thou canst not buy?
Alas, sir, it is too true
Would'st thou earn an hundred crowns?
An hundred crowns!
They might save her life
Then listen
A worthy but unhappy gentleman is to be
Beheaded in an hour on this very spot
For sufficient reasons, he desires to marry before
He dies, and he has asked me to find him a wife
Wilt thou be that wife?
The wife of a man I have never seen?
Have we your worship's word for it that this gentleman will die today?
Nothing is more certain, I grieve to say
And that the maiden will be allowed to depart
The very instant the ceremonies have ended?
The very instant
I pledge my honor that it shall be so
An hundred crowns?
An hundred crowns
For my part, I consent
It's for Elsie to say



Writer(s): Arthur Sullivan


Neil Mackie feat. Anthony Michaels-Moore, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Robert Lloyd, Sylvia McNair, Sir Thomas Allen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner - Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen Of The Guard
Album Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen Of The Guard
date of release
28-09-1993

1 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
2 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 1: "Oh, how I would love thee!" - "Where I thy bride"
3 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Well, Sergeant Meryll"
4 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders" - "Leonard Meryll!" - "Forbear, my friends" - "Didst thou not" - "Leonard!" - "As escort for the prisoner"
5 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hark! What was that, sir?" - "Who fired that shot?" "Like a ghost his vigil keeping." - "The river must be dragged"
6 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 2: "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
7 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "The deed is, so far, safely accompished"
8 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Well sung and well danced!"
9 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Night has spread her pall once more"
10 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Nay, sweetheart, be comforted"
11 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Strange adventure!"
12 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Now listen to me"
13 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again"
14 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Rapture, rapture!"
15 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "So my mysterious bride"
16 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And now, Sir Richard"
17 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis an odd freak"
18 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "But I trust you are very careful"
19 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Comes the pretty young bride" - "'Tis said to you" - "Hold, pretty one!"
20 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Two days gone"
21 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Free from his fetters grim"
22 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose"
23 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?"
24 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hereupon we're both agreed"
25 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And so, good fellow" - "I've jibe and joke"
26 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Here's a man of jollity"
27 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "I have a song to sing, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I
28 The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
29 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Mistress Meryll!"
30 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Tower warders under orders"
31 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "A good day to you!"
32 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When our gallant Norman foes"
33 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Father! Has no reprieve arrived"
34 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Alas! I waver to and fro"
35 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, lass, be of good cheer"
36 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"



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