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No. 13 - Concerted Number - "The Portrait"
| Marie: | I have met a man. |
| Girls: | You have met a man. |
| Marie: | I will draw him as I saw him, That is if I can! |
| Girls: | You're the smartest lady artist, We're sure that you can! |
| Marie: | He has got a nose, |
| Girls: | So we should suppose, |
| Marie: | Eyes with lashes. Dots and dashes have to stand for those. |
| Alexis: | She is fetching When she's sketching, What a lovely pose! Colour like a rose! What a lovely pose! |
| Marie: | That's a vignette Of the man that I met, It's a face I shall never forget! Though I haven't quite Got the eye-brows right, It's a bit of clever black and white. |
| Marie: | He has lips like this, |
| Girls: | Are they nice to kiss? |
| Marie: | Don't be horrid! But his forehead Is something like this! |
| Girls: | To discover such a lover Would be simply bliss! |
| Marie: | That's his curly hair, |
| Girls: | All those twiddles there. |
| Marie: | I have black'd it, But, in fact, it is extremely fair. |
| Alexis: | Should it strike me As too like me, I must have a care, Yes, I will beware, I must have a care! |
| Marie: | That's a vignette Of the man that I met, It's a face I shall never forget! If my name now I write That will make it quite Worth a hundred guineas black and white. |
| Girls: | That's a vignette Of the man she has met, It's a face... |
| Marie: | It's a face I shall never forget! |
| Girls: | If your name now you write That will make it quite Worth a hundred guineas... |
| Alexis: | Worth a hundred guineas |
| All: | Black and white, Black and white. |
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Page modified 13 October 2016