A Country Girl

Musical

Writers: James T. Tanner Lionel Monckton Paul Alfred Rubens Adrian Ross

Songs

Act I

  • No. 1 - Chorus & Mummery - "When the birds begin to sing, out we go a-harvestin."
  • No. 2 - Nan & Chorus - "Johnnie came from London Town for a bit of fun"
  • No. 3 - Marjorie - "Over the hills and far away, borne on the summer breeze"
  • No. 4 - Geoffrey & Chorus - "A sailor's life's the life I trow, he works now late, now early"
  • No. 5 - Barry & Chorus - "I went to sea as a bold A. B., and I thought when I got on board"
  • No. 6 - Marjorie & Geoffrey - "When we were children, going through meadows after mowing"
  • No. 7 - Chorus & Scene - Rajah & Princess - "Here he comes, here he comes! In his Eastern glory"
  • No. 8 - Nan & Chorus - "Oh, Molly was tall and fair to see, her manners were frank, her language free"
  • No. 9 - Chorus - "Come and see them, only see! Never did anyone look so funny!"
  • No. 10 - Barry & Sophie - "Two little chicks lived in a farmyard, happy as chicks can be"
  • No. 11 - Princess - "Over the mountain passes, under the peaks of snow"
  • No. 12 - Finale Act I - "Hurrah! for the squire, our gallant young squire, head of the house that was head of the shire"

Act II

  • No. 13 - Chorus - "From 1795 to 1799, Republican France would dress for a dance in fashions extremely fine."
  • No. 14 - Sophie & Chorus - "I'm quite the most attractive of all the girls, they say"
  • No. 15 - Rajah, Geoffrey, Marjorie, Nan & others - "We are invited everywhere by people we can't say No to"
  • No. 16 - Barry - "Mrs. Brown's a wonder, she's fifty-six or more"
  • No. 17 - Barry & Chorus - "Oh! a sailor loves a chance of a partner at a dance, when his ship comes into port"
  • No. 18 - Marjorie - "An actress smiles and an actress sighs, an actress hopes and fears or cries"
  • No. 19 - Geoffrey - "Time passes slowly by, my little Girlie"
  • No. 20 - Nan & Chorus - "Oh, London girls are all so haughty, proud, and chilly"
  • No. 21 - Rajah & Chorus - "When once I was given to dances, no doubt I committed some faults"
  • No. 22 - Sophie & Barry - "You're a very funny man!" "Oh! really? You're a very curious girl!"
  • No. 23 - Finale Act II - "Yo-ho! little girls, yo-ho! That's so, little girls, that's so"

Addenda

  • No. 24 - Nan & Chorus - "The world was not for pain, not for remorse; but though we strive in vain"
  • No. 25 - Marjorie, Nan, Sophie, Rajah, Douglas & Grassmere - "When rushing round the whirl of parties"
  • No. 26 - Geoffrey, with Marjorie - "Dear little maid, I can recall her clearly"
  • No. 27 - Rajah & Chorus - "When I've quitted my wfe for a bachelor life in a pastoral Eastern dominion"
  • No. 28 - Barry & Chorus - "You women nowadays are a mass of affectation"
  • No. 29 - Nan - "Down along the valley by the willows and the stream"
  • No. 30 - Nan - "I'm just a simple country girl and looking so well and hearty"
  • No. 31 - Princess - "Some girls weep when a love goes by; What care I?"
  • No. 32 - Geoffrey & Chorus - "Tommy Atkins is a chap that is useful in a scrap"

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.

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