No. 20 - Duet - Anita and Nix - "The Merry Widow."

Lyrics by Adrian Ross

[Anita:] If you're the dear departed--
[Nix:] And you're the one bereft--
[Both:] Once more we'll take our places
For wedding steeple-chases,
[Anita:] And when the race is started,
This time we won't get left,
[Both:] If you're/I'm the dear departed,
And I'm/you're the one bereft,
If you're/I'm the dear departed,
And I'm/you're the one bereft!
Let us go and marry,
For we need not wait;
If we want to tarry
We shall be too late!
No one can forbid, oh!
Spread the wedding feast--
I'm the merry widow,
You're the gay deceased!

[Anita:] If I'm the lorn and lonely--
[Nix:] And I'm the sad remains--
[Anita:] My love's been growing stronger
For seven years and longer!
[Nix:] A passion met with only
In novels of Hall Caine's.
[Both:] If I'm/you're the lorn and lonely,
And you're/I'm the sad remains,
If I'm/you're the lorn and lonely,
And you're/I'm the sad remains!
Oh! it will be heaven,
Quite the very best,
Kissing you with seven
Years of interest!
We'll do all we did, oh!
Twice as well at least--
I'm the merry widow,
You're the gay deceased!