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Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me! Lyrics by Adrian D. Holmes

The Pirates of Penzance: Revamped and Revisited

2016

FRED
Oh, false one, you have deceived me!
RUTH
I have deceived you?
FRED
Yes, deceived me!
[Duet between FRED and RUTH begins]
FRED
You told me you were fair as gold,
RUTH
—And, master, am I not so?
FRED
And now I see you're plain and old.
RUTH
I'm sure I'm not a jot so!
FRED
Upon my innocence you've played!
RUTH
I'm not the one to plot so!
FRED
Your face is lined, your hair is grey!
RUTH
It gradually got so!
FRED
Faithless woman, to deceive me,
I who trusted so!
RUTH
Master, master, do not leave me!
Hear me ere you go!
FRED
Faithless woman!
RUTH
Master, master!
FRED
Faithless woman!
RUTH
Master, master!
FRED (top), RUTH (bottom)
Faithless woman, to deceive me, I who trusted so!
Master, master, do not leave me. Hear me ere you go!
Faithless woman, to deceive me, I who trusted so!
Master, master, do not leave me. Hear me ere you go!
RUTH (solo)
My love without reflecting, oh do not be rejecting.
Take a maiden tender—her affection raw and green!
At very highest rating, has been accumulating
Summers seventeen—summers seventeen.
FRED (top), RUTH (bottom)
Yes, your former master saves you from disaster.
Don't, beloved master, crush me with disaster.
Your love would be uncomfortably fervid, it is clear.
What is such a dower to the dower I have here?
If, as you are stating, it's been accumulating
My love unabating has been accumulating
Forty-seven years!
Forty-seven years!
FRED
Faithless woman, to deceive me,
I who trusted so!
FRED (top), RUTH (bottom)
Faithless woman, to deceive me, I who trusted so!
Master, master, do not leave me. Hear me ere you go!
Credits
Adrian D. Holmes

Adrian D. Holmes

About “Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me!” by Adrian D. Holmes

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