My Love (Governor’s Serenade)

Nicolai Gedda & June Anderson * Track #20 On Bernstein: Candide

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Nicolai Gedda & June Anderson

1991

My Love (Governor's Serenade) by Nicolai Gedda & June Anderson

Performed by

Nicolai Gedda & June Anderson

Produced by

Hans Weber

Writed by

Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur & John La Touche

My Love (Governor’s Serenade) Lyrics

[GOVERNOR]
Poets have said
Love is undying, my love
Don't be misled
They were all lying, my love
Love's on the wing
But now while he hovers
Let us be lovers
One soon recovers, my love

Soon the fever's fled
For love's a transient blessing
Just a week in bed
And we'll be convalescing
Why talk of morals
When springtime is flying?
Why end in quarrels
Reproaches and sighing
Crying for love?
My love?

[CUNEGONDE]
I cannot entertain
Your shocking proposition
How could I regain
My virginal condition?
I am so pure that
Before you may bed me
You must assure me
That first you will wed me
Wed me!

[GOVERNOR]
Well then
Since you're so pure
I shall betroth you, my love
Though I feel sure
I'll come to loathe you, my love
Still for the thrill
I'm perfectly willing
For if we must wed
Before we may bed
Then, come let us wed
My love!

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Who wrote My Love (Governor’s Serenade)'s ?

My Love (Governor’s Serenade) was written by Leonard Bernstein & Richard Wilbur & John La Touche.