Look, ma’am, an invitation
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Here, ma’am, delivered by hand
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And, ma’am, I notice the station-
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Ary’s engraved and very grand
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Petra, how too exciting!
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Just when I need it!
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Petra, such elegant writing
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So chic you hardly can read it!
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What do you think?
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Who can it be?
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Even the ink--
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No, here, let me…
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«Your presence"--just think of it, Petra!
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«Is kindly"--it's at a chateau!
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«Requested"--etcet'ra, etcet’ra
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«Madame Leonora Armf--» Oh, no!
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A weekend in the country--
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We’re invited?
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What a horrible plot!
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A weekend in the country--
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I’m excited!
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No, you’re not
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A weekend in the country, just imagine--
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It’s completely depraved
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A weekend in the country!
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It’s insulting
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It’s engraved
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It’s that woman, it’s that Armfeldt!
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Oh, the actress?
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No, the ghoul!
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She may hope to make her charm felt
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But she’s mad if she thinks I would be such a fool
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As to weekend in the country
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How insulting!
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And I’ve nothing to wear
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A weekend in the country--
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Here! |
The last place I’m going is there
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Guess what? |
An invitation!
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Guess who? |
Begins with an «A.»
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«Armfeldt"--is that a relation
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To the decrepit Desiree?
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Out of the blue isn’t it strange
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Well but it’s true we need a change
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Oh, no!
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A weekend in the country
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Would be charming
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And the air would be fresh
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A weekend with that woman?
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In the country--
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In the flesh
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A weekend in the country
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Smelling jasmine
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Watching little thing grow
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A weekend in the country
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My darling, we’ll simply say no
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Oh
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A weekend!
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How very amusing
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A weekend!
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But also inept
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A weekend; |
of course we’re refusing
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Au contraire! |
You must accept!
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Oh, no!
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A weekend in the country--
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But it’s frightful!
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No, you don’t understand
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A weekend in the country
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Is delightful
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If it’s planned
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Wear your hair down, and a flower
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Don’t use makeup, dress in white
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She’ll grow older by the hour
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And be hopelessly shattered by Saturday night
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Spend a weekend in the country
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We’ll accept it!
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I’d a feeling you would
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A weekend in the country--
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Yes, it’s only polite that we should
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Good
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Well?
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I’ve an intriguing little social item--
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What?
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Out of the Armfeldt family manse
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Well, what?
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Merely a weekend, still, I thought it might am-
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Use you to know
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Who’s invited to go
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This time with his pants
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You don’t mean…
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I’ll give you three guesses
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She wouldn’t…
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Reduce it to two
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It can’t be…
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It nevertheless is
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Egerman!
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Right! |
Score one for you
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A weekend in the country
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We should try it
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How I wish we’d been asked
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A weekend in the country
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Peace and quiet--
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We’ll go masked
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A weekend in the country…
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Uninvited?
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They’ll consider it odd
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A weekend in the country
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I’m delighted
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Oh, my god
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And the shooting should be pleasant
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If the weather’s not too rough
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Happy birthday, it’s your present
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But--
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You haven’t been getting out nearly enough
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And a weekend in the country--
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It’s perverted!
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Pack my quiver and bow
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A weekend in the country--
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At exactly 2: 30, we go
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We can’t
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We shall!
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We shan’t!
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I’m getting the car
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And we’re motoring down
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Yes, I’m certain you are
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And I’m staying in town
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Go and pack my suits! |
We’ll go
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I won’t
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My boots! |
We will?
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Pack everything I own that shoots!
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We should
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No! |
Pack everything white
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Charlotte! |
Ma’am, it’s wonderful news!
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I’m thinking it out. |
Are you sure it’s all right?
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Charlotte! |
We’d be rude to refuse
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We are?
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Charlotte!
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We’ll take the car!
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All right, then--
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We’ll bring champagne and caviar!
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We’re off on our way
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What a beautiful day
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For a weekend in the country
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Taking rambles
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Having leisurely chats
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A weekend in the country
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With the brambles
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And the gnats!
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A weekend in the country
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Full of craning to see? |
in their nests
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A weekend in the country
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Entertaining other guests
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I’ll recieve them in the red room
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Then impress them with a feast
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Then retire to my bedroom
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Where I am planning to stay
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Until monday a least!
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A weekend in the country
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Rising early to go out and lie down
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A weekend in the country
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Where--
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A weekend in the country, the bees in their hives
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The shallow worldly figures, the frivolous lives
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The devil’s companions know not whom they serve
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It might be instructive to observe
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Charlotte! |
We’re off! |
A weekend in the country
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The bees
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In their hives…
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I’m thinking We are?
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It out
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We’ll take
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Charlotte! |
The car
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There’s no need We’ll bring champagne We’re off! |
We are?
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To shout. |
And caviar! |
We’ll take the car!
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We’ll bring
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Champagne
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And caviar…
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We’re off on our way
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What a beautiful day
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We’re laying our plans We’re off on The bees in
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While we’re playing croquet, Our way, Their hives…
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With riotous laughter we quietly suffer
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The season in town, which is reason enough for
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A weekend in the country
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A refresher for the body and mind
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A weekend in the country
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With the pressure far behind
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A weekend in the country
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Gently gliding over manicured lawns
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A weekend in the country
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Gently hiding little yawns…
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With the pheasants in the thickets
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And the peasants mowing hay
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In the presence of the crickets
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We’ll be laying our plans while we’re playing croquet
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A weekend in the country
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With umbrellas to avoid getting brown
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A weekend in the country
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Where
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Twice as upset as in…
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Are you sure?
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We’re going!
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Town! |