No. 19 - Duet - Mitsu and Suki - "Memories" Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis & Percy Greenbank

[Suki:] What romantic recollections
Of our meeting I have got!
[Mitsu:] When I captured your affections,
I was bathing, was I not?
[Suki:] Sudden billows 'neath the willows
Marked the elephantine spot.
[Mitsu:] Do you unworthily remember,
[Suki:] Could I deplorably forget!
[Both:] That most contemptible occasion
When we unfortunately met?
[Mitsu:] I dived in as you came along the road.
[Suki:] Now I know why the river overflowed!
[Mitsu:] Do you by any chance remember?
[Suki:] How could I forget?

Through the meadows we would wander,
As we whispered Love's young vows;
[Mitsu:] Once we noticed over yonder
Quiet cattle on the browse.
[Suki:] Getting nearer, we saw clearer
They were bulls instead of cows!
[Mitsu:] Do you unworthily remember,
[Suki:] Could I deplorably forget!
[Both:] That most contemptible occasion
When all those animals we met?
[Mitsu:] They tossed me
like a feather up aloft.
[Suki:] And for some weeks
I sat on something soft.
[Mitsu:] Do you by any chance remember?
[Suki:] How could I forget?


Once you coyly came to meet me
When the moon was shining bright;
[Mitsu:] Then you took me out to treat me,
For a tea-house was in sight;
[Suki:] Unromantic and gigantic
Was your girlish appetite.
[Mitsu:] Do you unworthily remember,
[Suki:] Could I deplorably forget!
[Both:] That most contemptible occasion
When you/I so ravenously ate?
[Mitsu:] When the bill came,
you were staggered at the price.
[Suki:] I should think so!
Twenty-seven plates of rice!
[Mitsu:] Do you by any chance remember?
[Suki:] How could I forget?