ACT I - The Living Room in the Country House of the Hammonds in the suburbs of Pittsburg. A Wednesday morning in September.
- No. 1 - Opening Scene and Incidental Music (with frequently chiming Swiss clock.)
- No. 2 - Duet - Mabel and Eleanor, with Girls
- "To a college filled with knowledge, girlies come from ev'rywhere; there are classics in profusion..."
- No. 3 - Song - Monsieur Beaucaire
- "When you're out in society you will find ze gentlemen most polite..."
- No. 4 - Song - John Hammond
- "Man is a curious creature, as history will tell, and it's difficult quite to size him right till you know him very well..."
- No. 5 - Song - Victoria and Girls
- "My father went to work and joined the multi-millionaires, by buying some old silly stock or elevated shares..."
- No. 6 - Quartet - Morton, Todd, Laird and John
- "Oh! the world may shake with laughter, or the world may weep with woe..."
- No. 7 - Song - Morton
- "They found a wild rose, brave and sweet, deep in the forest glade, and in a garden fair, for it a city home they made..."
- No. 8 - Song - Todd
- "As we go through this world now, our pace is a walk, because we must listen while others folks talk..."
- No. 9 - Ensemble - Morton, Victoria, Todd and others
- "There once was a Princess, young and fair, with her wond'rous wealth and her jewels rare..."
- No. 10 - Chorus
- "Some people have a stingy laugh, and some are broad and ample. Let's take the love-sick maiden's first, to start with for example..."
ACT II - The Pine Forest on the Estate of John Hammond, the following evening.
- No. 11 - Intermezzo
- No. 12 - Song - Morton
- "When de daylight am a-winkin' and a-blinkin' at de night, and I sit befo' mah cabin all alone..."
- No. 13 - Song - Hammond and Male Chorus
- "O'er the brim of a glass of wine, what visions we see, my boy! All the sparkling drops combine..."
- No. 14 - Song - Victoria and Girls
- "When but a tiny litle girl, my mother used to say: 'You'll have the goodest dreams tonight...'"
- No. 15 - Song - Mabel and Chorus
- "In the dear old forest of Arden, in the golden long ago, roamed a maiden fair with her sunlit hair..."
- No. 16 - Song - Beaucaire and Chorus
- "Fifi was a little maid, so demure and shy, modest mien and manner staid, never roving eye..."
- No. 17 - Duet - Morton and Victoria
- "Has Cupid laid in wait for you? ... I've never seen that boy..."
- No. 18 - Finale Ultimo
- "I'd rather be a wild rose than any flow'r that grows; oh, set me free, I want to be a wild, wild rose."
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