No. 13 - Concerted Number - "The Portrait" Lyrics by Adrian Ross

[Marie:] I have met a man.
[Girls:] You have met a man.
[Marie:] I will draw him as I saw him,
That is if I can!
[Girls:] You're the smartest lady artist,
We're sure that you can!
[Marie:] He has got a nose,
[Girls:] So we should suppose,
[Marie:] Eyes with lashes.
Dots and dashes have to stand for those.
[Alexis:] She is fetching
When she's sketching,
What a lovely pose!
Colour like a rose!
What a lovely pose!
[Marie:] That's a vignette
Of the man that I met,
It's a face I shall never forget!
Though I haven't quite
Got the eye-brows right,
It's a bit of clever black and white.

[Marie:] He has lips like this,
[Girls:] Are they nice to kiss?
[Marie:] Don't be horrid!
But his forehead
Is something like this!
[Girls:] To discover such a lover
Would be simply bliss!
[Marie:] That's his curly hair
[Girls:] All those twiddles there.
[Marie:] I have black'd it,
But, in fact, it is extremely fair.
[Alexis:] Should it strike me
As too like me,
I must have a care,
Yes, I will beware,
I must have a care!
[Marie:] That's a vignette
Of the man that I met,
It's a face I shall never forget!
If my name now I write
That will make it quite
Worth a hundred guineas Black and white.
[Girls:] That's a vignette
Of the man she has met,
It's a face...
[Marie:] It's a face I shall never forget!
[Girls:] If your name now you write
That will make it quite
Worth a hundred guineas...
[Alexis:] Worth a hundred guineas
[All:] Black and white, Black and white.