Original Broadway Cast Recording - A Weekend In The Country

Look, ma'am, an invitation,
Here, ma'am, delivered by hand
And, ma'am, I notice the station-
Ary's engraved and very grand
Petra, how too exciting
Just when I need it
Petra, such elegant writing,
So chic you hardly can read it
What do you think
Who can it be
Even the ink
No, here, letme
Your presencejust think of it, Petra
Is kindlyit's at a chteau
Requestedetcet'ra, etcet'ra,
Madame Leonora Armf O, no
A weekend in the country
We're inited
What a horribleplot
A weekend in the country
I'm exited
No, you'r not
A weekend in the country, just imagine
It's completely depaved
A weekend in the country
It's insuting
It's engaved
It's that woman, it's that Armfeldt
Oh, the acress
No, the houl
She may hope to make her charm felt,
But she's mad if she thinks I would be such a fool
As to weekend in the contry
How insulting
And I've nothing towNE &
A weekend in the cotra
Here The last place I'm going is trik
Guess what An invittion
Guess who Begins with an A
Armfeldtis that a reation
To the decrepit Desiree
Guess when we're asked to go sir
See, sir, the date there
Guess where A fancy chateau sir
Guess, too, who's lying in wait there,
Setting her raps,
Fixing herDRIK
Darling, prhaps
A change o pace
OhDRIK
A weekend in the cotry
Would be charming,
And the air would be resh
A weekend with that wDRIK
In the cuntry
In the fDRIK
I've some business with her mother
See, it's busness
Oh, no doubt
But the business with her mother
Would be hardly the business I'd worry aRIK &
Just a weekend in the coDRIK
Smelling jsmine
Watching little things RIK &
A weekend in the contryDRIK
My darling, we'll simply sy notte
A wekend
How very amusing
A wekend
But also inept
A weekend of course we're refusing
Au contraire You must accept
O, no
A weekend in the country
But it's frigtful
No, you don't understand
A weekend in the country
Is delihtful
If it's planned
Wear your hair down, and a flower,
Don't use makeup, dress in white
She'll grow older by the hour
And be hopelessly shattered by Saturday night
Spend a weekend in the country
We'll accet it
I'd a feeling you wNNE &
A weekend in the country
Yes, it's only polite that we sould
GNUS
Well
I've an intriguing little socialGNUS
Well
Out of the Armfeldt family mGNUS
Well,what
Merely a weekend, still, I thought it might am-
Use you t know
Who's invited to go,
This time with his pGNUS
You don't man
I'll give you three guesses
She would't
Reduce it to two
It can'tbe
It nevertheless is
Egrman
Right Score one for you
A-ha
A-ha
Aha
A-ha
A weekend in the contry,
We should try it
How I wish we'd been sked
A weekend in the country,
Peace andquiet
We'll go masked
A weekend in the counry
Uninvited
They'll consider it odd
A weekend in the contry,
I'm delighted
Oh, m god
And the shooting should be pleasant
If the weather's not too rough
Happy birthday, it's your present
But
You haven't been getting out nearly enough
And a weekend in the country
It's pervrted
Pack my quiver and bow
A weekend in the cuntry
At exactly 230, we go
We an't
We hall
We shan't
I'm getting te car
And we're motoring down
Yes, I'm certain yo are,
And I'm staying in
town
Go and pack my suits We'll go
I won't Oh,good
My boots We will
Pack everything I own that shoots
We sould
No Pack everything white
Charlotte Ma'am, it's wonderful news
I'm thinking it out Are you sure it's all right
Charlotte We'd be rude to refuse
There's no need to shout Then we're off
W are
Charltte
We'll take the car
We'll bring champagne and caviar
We're off on ou way,
What a beautiful day
For a weekend in the country,
How amsing,
How delightfully droll
A weekend in the country,
While we're osing
Our control
A weekend in the contry,
How enchanting,
On the manicured awns
A weekend in the country,
With the panting
And the yawns
With the crickets and the pheasants
And the orchards and the hay,
With the servants and the peasants,
We'll be laying our plans while we're playing croquet
For a weekend in the country,
So inctive
That one has to lie down
A weekend in the cuntry
Where
HENRIK
A weekend in the country, the bees in their hives,
The shallow worldly figures, the frivolous lives
The devil's companions know not whom they serve,
It might be instructive to observe
CARL-MAGNUS FREDRIK HENRIK
Charlotte e're off A weeken in the country,
The bees
In their hive
I'm thinking We are
It out
FREDRIK &
CARL-MAGNUS We'll take
Charlotte The car
MRS SEGSTROM & MRS
FREDRIK, ANNE, AND RSSEN
There's no need We'll bring cWe're off We are
Tviar We'll take the car
We'll bring
MRS NORDSTROM, MR CARL-MAGNUS, Champagne
ERLANSEN, MR LINDQUIST CHARLOTTE, And caviar
We're off on our way, FREDRIK,
What a beautiful day, ANNE & HENRIK
We're laying our plans We're off on The bees in
While we're playing croquet, Our way, Their hives
Controlling ourselves What a
While strolling the lawns, Beautiful
Confiding our motives Day
While hidin our yawns
QUINTET THE REST
The weather is spectacular We're off on our way,
What a beautiful day
ALL
With riotou laughter we quietly suffer
The season in town, which is reason enough for
A weekendin the country,
How amusing,
How delightfully droll
A weekend in the country,
While we're losing
Our control
A weekend in the country,
How enchanting,
On the manicured lawns
A weekend in the country,
With te panting
And the yawns
With the crickets and thepheasants
And the orchards and the hay,
With the servats and the peasants,
We'll be laying our plans while we're playing croquet
For a weekend in the country,
So inactive
That one has to lie down
A weekend in the country
Where
We're twice as upset as in
Twice as upset as in
Twice as upset as in
Twice as upset as in
CARL-MAGNUS ANNE, FREDRIK QUINTET
Charlotte, We're A weekend Are you sure Twice as upset
We're going Uninvited A weekend You want to go As in
Charlotte, We're A weekend Are you sure Twice as upset
We're going Uninvited A weekend You want to go As in
Charlotte, We're nd Are you sure Twice as upset
We're going Uninvited A weekend You want to go As in
Charlotte, We're A weekend Away and leave, Twice as upset
We're going Uninvited A weekend Go and leave As in
We should A weekend Twice as upset
Stay in In As in
ALL
Town