No. 6 - Duet - Margorie and Geoffrey - "Boy and Girl."

Lyrics by Adrian Ross

[Marjorie:] When we were children, going
Through meadows after mowing,
[Geoffrey:] We used to play among the hay,
Big armfuls fiercely throwing!
[Marjorie:] But soon our war was ended,
And on the hay extended,
[Geoffrey:] In peace we'd make a feast of cake,
That cake was simply splendid!
Little girl!
[Marjorie:] Little boy!
[Both:] We would have such fun, in the summer sun!
Nobody stupid to check the joy
[Marjorie:] of one little girl, and one little boy!
One little, one little
[Both:] girl, and boy!

[Marjorie:] When all the woods were ringing,
With birds of springtime singing,
[Geoffrey:] We'd take a board and length of cord
And gaily go a-swinging!
[Marjorie:] Then to and fro, unsteady,
Our swing would twist and eddy;
[Geoffrey:] And if it broke, 'twas but a joke--
[Marjorie:] The grass was always ready!
[Geoffrey:] Little girl!
[Marjorie:] Little boy!
[Both:] We would swing so high that we seemed to fly!
Life was a game, and the world a toy,
[Marjorie:] For one little girl, and one little boy,
One little, one little
[Both:] girl, and boy!

[Marjorie:] How all the lanes remind me
Of happy days behind me.
[Geoffrey:] Our dearest freak was hide and seek,
[Marjorie:] I hid and you would find me.
[Geoffrey:] I heard you faintly calling,
And then a silence falling--
[Marjorie:] You pass'd me by beneath your eye,
With blindness quite appalling!
[Geoffrey:] Little girl!
[Marjorie:] Little boy!
[Both:] But you don't forget how we always met!
We were not distant or cold, or coy,
[Marjorie:] As one little girl, and one little boy,
One little, one little
[Both:] girl, and boy!