Neighbor’s Chorus - Jacques Offenbach

Text: Please excuse us, mister, we don’t want to bother, we only want to know Why do you look so low? Give us all the lowdown, Did you reach a show-down with your last lady love? Did she keep you waiting, did she break your date? Please elucidate, please elaborate Did she treat you badly, was she very bad? Did she make you mad? Are you very sad? Was she a very rich man’s daughter Who showed that she was not all you thought her? When with your songs of love you sought her, Were you dowsed with water poured down from above? Did you beat her, try to choke her till you made her pout? Did her father take a poker, did he throw you out? Did you beat her and choke her and knock her all about? Ah! This piece is part of a concert of ours that takes choral works from a variety composers; from A to Z. Bach, Mozart, Handel and the more famous composers are not featured here, rather we performed music that isn’t as commonly heard, but all the more beautiful.