ACT I   -   The Cheese Market at Arndyk, on the Borders of the Zuyder Zee.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "To market, to market, the whole world is going..."
• No. 2 - Song - Schnapps & Chorus - "Mister Hook started quite low down in life, in a tiny distillery with a fat lumpy wife..."
• No. 3 - Knitting Sextet - Orphans & Girls - "We are little orphans, you can tell us at a glance..."
• No. 4 - Slinks & Chorus of Men - "We're a lot of lazy loafers, Oh! we recognise it's true..."
• No. 5 - Song - Sally - "A little paper toy at best, a thing as frail as any flower..."
• No. 6 - Cheese Chorus - "We've purchased our meat for dinner, bought the best of all we can find..."
• No. 7 - Song - Paap & Chorus - "Our enemies may choose to scorn the land that we control..."
• No. 8 - Duet - Van Vuyt & Sally, with Chorus - "When the sun is aglow in the west, 'tis the hour of the lover..."
• No. 9 - Song - Mina & Chorus - "There lived a young Dutchman of whom you have heard..."
• No. 10 - Trio - Schnapps, Slinks & Hook, with Chorus - "Ev'ry Dutchman when he wakes, a little piece of cheese he takes..."
• No. 11 - Song - Van Vuyt & Chorus - "Is there any other man so envied in the land..."
• No. 12 - Finale Act I - "Is it insubordination?   What is all this noise about?   Somebody is in disgrace..."

ACT II   -   The Interior of the Liqueur Distillery, Amsterdam.

• No. 13 - Opening Chorus - "Any time you're passing, if there should be anything that you require..."
• No. 14 - Unaccompanied Madrigal - "Life inside a Dutch distillery doesn't leave much time for play..."
• No. 15 - Song - Freda - "In an old Dutch town once a bold young man loved a maid with a burning passion..."
• No. 16 - Song - Sally & Girls - "Little Miss Wooden Shoes, ev'ryone knows, had dear little feet and divine little toes..."
• No. 17 - Song - Mina - "I've been spoilt such a lot.  It's my fault?  No, it's not!  It's the men won't leave me alone! ..."
• No. 18 - Duet - Sally & Van Vuyt - "Love is a carnival, and one that's free to all of us..."
• No. 19 - Concerted Number - "Mister Hook had arranged his house entirely on a novel plan..."
• No. 20 - Dance
• No. 21 - Song - Van Vuyt & Chorus of Girls - "Had you and I met in those far distant days that are past..."
• No. 22 - Duet - Mina & Schnapps - "In a little coat of straw stood a bottle of Schnapps..."
• No. 23 - Song - Schnapps & Chorus - "An Englishman, some years ago, had a scheme that dumb-founded the earth..."
• No. 24 - Song - Sally - "To ev'ry sun-clad nation belongs that country's good wine..."
• No. 25 - Finale Act II - "With his tra! lal, la, la, la..."

Addenda...

• No. 26 - Song - Sally - "English girls when they make love simple language are above..."
• No. 27 - Song - Mina - "I've never been inside a big town before..."
• No. 28 - Song - Van Vuyt - "Before he became a Conductor of a beautiful band of brass..."
• No. 29 - Song - Slinks - "I wonder who on earth the fool could have been who first invented work? ..."

Lyrics to songs: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29

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