A Weekend in the Country

A Weekend in the Country Lyrics

Song A Weekend in the Country
Artist Stephen Sondheim
Album A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
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[00:07.11] Look ma'm an invitation
[00:08.63] Here ma'am delivered by hand
[00:10.59] And ma'am I notice the station
[00:12.67] Ary's engraved and very grand
[00:14.74] Petra how too exciting
[00:16.72] Just when I need it
[00:18.65] Petra such elegant writing
[00:20.84] So chic you hardly can read it
[00:23.14] What do you think who can it be
[00:25.12] Even the ink no here let me
[00:29.35] Your presence just think of it Petra
[00:31.34] Is kindly it's at a chateau
[00:33.44] Requested etcet'ra etcet'ra
[00:36.21] Madame Leonora Armf oh no
[00:42.01] A weekend in the country
[00:44.03] We're invited
[00:45.19] What a horrible plot
[00:46.41] A weekend in the country
[00:48.36] I'm excited no you're not
[00:50.99] A weekend in the country just imagine
[00:53.82] It's completely depraved
[00:55.19] A weekend in the country
[00:57.02] It's insulting it's engraved
[00:59.28] It's that woman it's that Armfeldt
[01:01.50] Oh the actress
[01:02.39] No the ghoul
[01:03.47] She may hope to make her charm felt
[01:05.80] But she's mad if she thinks
[01:06.91] I would be such a fool
[01:08.19] As to weekend in the country
[01:10.09] How insulting
[01:11.16] And I've nothing to wear
[01:12.40] A weekend in the country
[01:14.40] Here the last place I'm going is there
[01:21.24] Guess what an invitation
[01:23.11] Guess who begins with an a
[01:25.29] Armfeldt is that a relation
[01:27.22] To the decrepit Desiree
[01:29.42] Guess when we're asked to go sir
[01:31.42] See sir the date there
[01:33.35] Guess where a fancy chateau sir
[01:35.72] Guess too who's lying in wait there
[01:37.75] Setting her traps fixing her face
[01:39.75] Darling perhaps a change of pace
[01:41.91] Oh no
[01:42.77] A weekend in the country
[01:43.84] Would be charming
[01:44.79] And the air would be fresh
[01:46.31] A weekend with that woman
[01:48.03] In the country in the flesh
[01:50.33] I've some business with her mother
[01:52.38] See it's business
[01:53.51] Oh no doubt
[01:54.58] But the business with her mother
[01:56.67] Would be hardly
[01:57.65] The business I'd worry about
[01:58.97] Just a weekend in the country
[02:01.06] Smelling jasmine
[02:02.10] Watching little things grow
[02:03.55] A weekend in the country
[02:05.40] Go my darling we'll simply say no oh
[02:12.29] A weekend how very amusing
[02:14.30] A weekend but also inept
[02:16.31] A weekend of course we're refusing
[02:18.41] Au contraire you must accept
[02:20.77] Oh no a weekend in the country
[02:24.90] But it's frightful
[02:26.10] No you don't understand
[02:27.23] A weekend in the country
[02:29.22] Is delightful if it's planned
[02:31.51] Wear your hair down and a flower
[02:33.57] Don't use makeup dress in white
[02:35.56] She'll grow older by the hour
[02:37.81] And be hopelessly shattered by Saturday night
[02:40.34] Spend a weekend in the country
[02:42.20] We'll accept it I'd a feeling you would
[02:44.30] A weekend in the country
[02:46.61] Yes it's only polite that we should good
[02:53.30] Well I've an intriguing little social item
[02:56.90] Well out of the Armfeldt family manse
[03:00.76] Well what
[03:01.51] Merely a weekend
[03:03.06] Still I thought it might am
[03:05.16] Use you to know who's invited to go
[03:07.23] This time with his pants
[03:09.23] You don't mean
[03:10.39] I'll give you three guesses
[03:11.39] She wouldn't
[03:11.95] Reduce it to two
[03:13.35] It can't be
[03:14.18] It nevertheless is
[03:15.41] Egerman
[03:16.35] Right score one for you
[03:17.71] A-ha a-ha a-ha a-ha
[03:21.77] A weekend in the country
[03:23.92] We should try it
[03:24.97] How I wish we'd been asked
[03:26.25] A weekend in the country
[03:28.14] Peace and quiet
[03:29.20] We'll go masked
[03:30.29] A weekend in the country
[03:32.44] Uninvited they'll consider it odd
[03:34.82] A weekend in the country
[03:36.75] I'm delighted oh my god
[03:38.94] And the shooting should be pleasant
[03:41.04] If the weather's not too rough
[03:43.14] Happy birthday it's your present
[03:45.46] But you haven't been getting out nearly enough
[03:47.72] And a weekend in the country
[03:49.70] It's perverted
[03:50.71] Pack my quiver and bow
[03:51.97] A weekend in the country
[03:54.12] At exactly 2:30 we go
[03:58.30] We can't we shall
[03:59.34] We shan't
[03:59.72] I'm getting the car
[04:00.69] And we're motoring down
[04:01.61] Yes I'm certain you are
[04:02.42] And I'm staying in town
[04:03.94] Go and pack my suits we'll go
[04:05.81] I won't oh good
[04:06.71] My boots we will
[04:07.37] Pack everything I own that shoots
[04:08.26] We should
[04:08.56] No pack everything white
[04:09.37] Charlotte ma'am it's wonderful news
[04:10.12] I'm thinking it out are you sure it's alright
[04:11.66] Charlotte we'd be rude to refuse
[04:12.61] There's no need to shout then we're off
[04:13.62] We are Charlotte
[04:13.73] We'll take the car
[04:14.16] All right then
[04:14.73] We'll bring champagne and caviar
[04:15.53] We're off on our way
[04:15.89] What a beautiful day
[04:16.60] For a weekend in the country
[04:18.32] How amusing how delightfully droll
[04:20.56] A weekend in the country
[04:22.50] While we're losing our control
[04:24.56] A weekend in the country
[04:26.75] How enchanting
[04:27.82] On the manicured lawns
[04:29.04] A weekend in the country
[04:30.97] With the panting and the yawns
[04:33.21] With the crickets and the pheasants
[04:35.21] And the orchards and the hay
[04:37.44] With the servants and the peasants
[04:39.50] We'll be laying our plans
[04:40.92] While we're playing croquet
[04:41.55] For a weekend in the country
[04:43.68] So inactive
[04:44.76] That one has to lie down
[04:45.99] A weekend in the country
[04:47.93] Where
[04:54.41] A weekend in the country the bees in their hives
[05:00.55] The shallow worldly figures the frivolous lives
[05:07.13] The devil's companions know not whom they serve
[05:14.07] It might be instructive to observe
[05:23.94] Charlotte we're off a weekend in the country
[05:26.85] The bees in their hives
[05:40.69] For a weekend in the country
[05:42.62] How amusing how delightfully droll
[05:44.81] A weekend in the country
[05:46.67] While we're losing our control
[05:48.73] A weekend in the country
[05:50.90] How enchanting
[05:51.93] On the manicured lawns
[05:53.25] A weekend in the country
[05:55.13] With the panting and the yawns
[05:57.40] With the crickets and the pheasants
[05:59.43] And the orchards and the hay
[06:01.59] With the servants and the peasants
[06:03.74] We'll be laying our plans
[06:04.66] While we're playing croquet
[06:05.73] For a weekend in the country
[06:07.84] So inactive
[06:08.87] That one has to lie down
[06:10.19] A weekend in the country
[06:12.24] Where we're twice as upset as in
[06:17.29] Twice as upset as in
[06:18.05] Twice as upset as in
[06:18.78] Twice as upset as in
[06:20.04] Are you sure twice as upset
[06:21.51] We're going uninvited a weekend
[06:23.56] You want to go as in
[06:25.36] Stay in in as in town
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