Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bernstein: Candide / Act I - 8. Dear Boy, artist - Adolph GreenAlbum song The Leonard Bernstein Collection - Volume 1 - Part 2, in the genre Шедевры мировой классики
Date of issue: 31.12.2013
Record label: Deutsche Grammophon
Song language: English
Bernstein: Candide / Act I - 8. Dear Boy |
Dear boy, you will not hear me speak |
With sorrow or with rancor |
Of what has paled my rosy cheek |
And blasted it with canker |
'Twas love, great love that did the deed |
Through Nature’s gentle laws |
And how should ill effects proceed |
From so divine a cause? |
Dear boy |
Sweet honey comes from bees that sting |
As you are well aware |
To one adept in reasoning |
Whatever pains disease may bring |
Are but the tangy seasoning |
Of love’s delicious fare |
Columbus and his men, they say |
Conveyed the virus hither |
Whereby my features rot away |
And vital powers wither |
Yet they had they not traversed the seas |
And come infected back |
Why, think of all the luxuries |
That modern life would lack! |
Dear boy |
All bitter things conduce to sweet |
As this example shows |
Without the little spirochete |
We’d have no chocolate to eat |
Nor would tobacco’s fragrance greet |
The European nose |
Each nation guards its native land |
With cannon and with sentry |
Inspectors look for contraband |
At every point of entry |
Yet nothing can prevent the spread |
Of love’s divine disease |
It rounds the world from bed to bed |
As pretty as you please |
Dear boy |
Men worship Venus everywhere |
As can be plainly seen |
The decorations which I bear |
Are nobler than the Croix de Guerre |
And gained in service of our fair |
And universal queen |