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No. 9: Duet (Toto & Doro) | |
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Doro. | ||||
Oh! tell me now, by plighted vow, | ||||
And tell me, tell me truly, | ||||
What cunning plot lies in the knot, | ||||
That you have tied so newly? | ||||
Does it recall some public ball | ||||
To which you want inviting? | ||||
Or is it to encourage you | ||||
Some letter to be writing? | ||||
My jealous mind no rest will find | ||||
My eyes will know no sleeping, | ||||
Till I extract the mystic fact | ||||
It holds within its keeping. | ||||
Oh, let that mystic fact be known | ||||
To me alone, to me alone. | ||||
Toto. | ||||
No, no; that secret shall be known | ||||
To me alone, to me alone. | ||||
It is designed to call to mind | ||||
A most important matter. |
Toto. | Doro. | ||||
No, no; that secret shall be known | Oh, let that mystic fact be known | ||||
To me alone, to me alone, | To me alone, to me alone, | ||||
That secret shall be known | Oh, let that mystic fact be known | ||||
To me alone, to me alone. | To me, to me alone, | ||||
That secret shall be known | Tso me alone, | ||||
To me alone. | To me alone. |
Toto. | ||||
Yes, I’ll confide why this was tied — | ||||
Forgive my thoughtless chatter, | ||||
It is designed to call to mind | ||||
A most important matter. | ||||
I’ll tell you now, although I vow | ||||
We’re not one till tomorrow, | ||||
The knot was tied by me, your bride, | ||||
To tell me that — To tell me that — To tell me that — Oh grief, oh rage, oh sorrow! |
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My fatal mem'ry knows no laws, | ||||
My head is filled with cotton, | ||||
My mem'ry knows no laws, I cannot tell you, dear, because, |
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Alas, I’ve quite forgotten; | ||||
Doro. (angrily.) | ||||
Ah! Until that fact to me is known, | ||||
I’ll live alone, I’ll live alone, | ||||
Until that fact to me is known, | ||||
I’ll live, I’ll live alone. |
Toto. | Doro. | ||||
That secret never can be known, | Until that fact to me is known, | ||||
Not even unto me alone, | I’ll live alone, I’ll live alone, | ||||
That secret never can be known, | Until that secret is known. | ||||
To me alone, to me alone, | I’ll live alone, I’ll live alone, | ||||
Alsa not even unto me | Until that fact is known to me | ||||
alone, alone! | I'll live alone! |
Exit DORO furiously.
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