Lyrics The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When maiden loves" - Jean Rigby feat. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
When
maiden
loves,
she
sits
and
sighs
She
wanders
to
and
fro
And
burdened
e'er,
but
'twill
her
light
unto
All
questions
she
replies
with
a
sad
"Heigh-ho!"
'Tis
but
a
little
word,
"Heigh-ho!"
So
soft
'tis
scarcely
heard,
"Heigh-ho!"
An
idle
breath,
yet
life
and
death
May
hang
upon
a
maid's
"Heigh-ho!"
When
maiden
loves,
she
mopes
a
cot
As
a
mope's
on
a
tree
Although
she
keenly
feels
a
smart
She
cannot
tell
what
ails
her
heart
With
its
sad
"Ah,
me!"
'Tis
but
a
foolish
sigh,
"Ah,
me!"
Born
but
to
droop
and
die,
"Ah,
me!"
Yet
all
the
sense
of
eloquence
Lies
hidden
in
a
maid's
"Ah,
me!"
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, Act II: "Oh! a private buffoon"
29 The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
30 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When maiden loves"
31 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Mistress Meryll!"
32 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Tower warders under orders"
33 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "A good day to you!"
34 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When our gallant Norman foes"
35 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Father! Has no reprieve arrived"
36 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Alas! I waver to and fro"
37 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, lass, be of good cheer"
38 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"
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