Stephen Sondheim - A Weekend in the Country lyrics

PETRA: Look, ma'am, an invitation Here, ma'am, delivered by hand And, ma'am, I notice the station- Ary's engraved and very grand ANNE: 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, let me... "Your presence"--just think of it, Petra! "Is kindly"--it's at a chateau! "Requested"--etcet'ra, etcet'ra "Madame Leonora Armf--" Oh, no! A weekend in the country-- PETRA: We're invited? ANNE: What a horrible plot! A weekend in the country-- PETRA: I'm excited! ANNE: No, you're not PETRA: A weekend in the country, just imagine-- ANNE: It's completely depraved PETRA: A weekend in the country! ANNE: It's insulting PETRA: It's engraved ANNE: It's that woman, it's that Armfeldt! PETRA: Oh, the actress? ANNE: No, the ghoul! 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 country PETRA: How insulting! ANNE: And I've nothing to wear ANNE & PETRA: A weekend in the country-- ANNE [hands the invitation back to Petra]: Here! The last place I'm going is there [Later] PETRA [to Fredrik]: Guess what? An invitation! ANNE: Guess who? Begins with an "A." "Armfeldt"--is that a relation To the decrepit Desiree? PETRA: Guess when we're asked to go, sir? See, sir, the date there Guess where? A fancy chateau, sir! ANNE: Guess, too, who's lying in wait there Setting her traps Fixing her face-- FREDRIK: Darling, perhaps A change of pace-- ANNE: Oh, no! FREDRIK: A weekend in the country Would be charming And the air would be fresh ANNE: A weekend with that woman? FREDRIK: In the country-- ANNE: In the flesh FREDRIK: I've some business with her mother PETRA: See, it's business ANNE: Oh, no doubt! But the business with her mother Would be hardly the business I'd worry about FREDRIK & PETRA: Just a weekend in the country-- FREDRIK: Smelling jasmine-- ANNE: Watching little things grow FREDRIK & PETRA: A weekend in the country ANNE: Go! FREDRIK: My darling, we'll simply say no ANNE: Oh [Later] ANNE [to Charlotte]: A weekend! CHARLOTTE: How very amusing ANNE: A weekend! CHARLOTTE: But also inept ANNE: A weekend; of course we're refusing CHARLOTTE: Au contraire! You must accept! ANNE: Oh, no! CHARLOTTE: A weekend in the country-- ANNE: But it's frightful! CHARLOTTE: No, you don't understand A weekend in the country Is delightful 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 ANNE: We'll accept it! CHARLOTTE: I'd a feeling you would ANNE & CHARLOTTE: A weekend in the country-- ANNE: Yes, it's only polite that we should CHARLOTTE: Good [Later] CARL-MAGNUS: Well? CHARLOTTE: I've an intriguing little social item-- CARL-MAGNUS: Well? CHARLOTTE: Out of the Armfeldt family manse CARL-MAGNUS: Well, what? CHARLOTTE: Merely a weekend, still, I thought it might am- Use you to know Who's invited to go This time with his pants CARL-MAGNUS: You don't mean... CHARLOTTE: I'll give you three guesses CARL-MAGNUS: She wouldn't... CHARLOTTE: Reduce it to two CARL-MAGNUS: It can't be... CHARLOTTE: It nevertheless is CARL-MAGNUS: Egerman! CHARLOTTE: Right! Score one for you CARL-MAGNUS: A-ha! CHARLOTTE: A-ha! CARL-MAGNUS: A-ha... CHARLOTTE: A-ha? CARL-MAGNUS: A weekend in the country We should try it CHARLOTTE: How I wish we'd been asked CARL-MAGNUS: A weekend in the country Peace and quiet-- CHARLOTTE: We'll go masked CARL-MAGNUS: A weekend in the country... CHARLOTTE: Uninvited? They'll consider it odd CARL-MAGNUS: A weekend in the country I'm delighted CHARLOTTE: Oh, my god CARL-MAGNUS: And the shooting should be pleasant If the weather's not too rough Happy birthday, it's your present CHARLOTTE: But-- CARL-MAGNUS: You haven't been getting out nearly enough And a weekend in the country-- CHARLOTTE: It's perverted! CARL-MAGNUS: Pack my quiver and bow CHARLOTTE & CARL-MAGNUS: A weekend in the country-- CARL-MAGNUS: At exactly 2:30, we go CHARLOTTE: We can't CARL-MAGNUS: We shall! CHARLOTTE: We shan't! CARL-MAGNUS: I'm getting the car And we're motoring down CHARLOTTE: Yes, I'm certain you are And I'm staying in town CARL-MAGNUS: ANNE: Go and pack my suits! We'll go CHARLOTTE: PETRA: I won't! Oh, good! CARL-MAGNUS: FREDRIK: My boots! We will? Pack everything I own that shoots! ANNE: CHARLOTTE: We should No! Pack everything white CARL-MAGNUS: PETRA: Charlotte! Ma'am, it's wonderful news! CHARLOTTE: FREDRIK: I'm thinking it out. Are you sure it's all right? CARL-MAGNUS: ANNE: Charlotte! We'd be rude to refuse CHARLOTTE: FREDRIK: There's no need to shout. Then we're off! CARL-MAGNUS: PETRA: We are? Charlotte! FREDRIK: We'll take the car! CHARLOTTE: All right, then-- ALL THREE: We'll bring champagne and caviar! ALL: We're off on our way What a beautiful day For a weekend in 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 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 inactive That one has to lie down A weekend in the country 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! We're off! A weekend in the country The bees CHARLOTTE: PETRA: In their hives... I'm thinking We are? It out FREDRIK & ANNE: CARL-MAGNUS: We'll take Charlotte! The car MRS. SEGSTROM & MRS CHARLOTTE: FREDRIK, ANNE, PETRA: ANDERSSEN: There's no need We'll bring champagne We're off! We are? To shout. And caviar! 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 & PETRA: 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 hiding our yawns... QUINTET: THE REST: The weather is spectacular! We're off on our way What a beautiful day! ALL: With riotous laughter we quietly suffer The season in town, which is reason enough for A weekend in 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 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 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: CHARLOTTE: ANNE, PETRA: 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 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! 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!