INTERNATIONAL DUET.
Air – “The Cobbler and the Tinker.”
“Now we’re met, let’s merry be!”
Says the English to the French-man:
“Let’s put aside all enmity,
And act with common sense, man!
I’ll bring coal-”
French. And I’ll bring wine;
English. My freight be iron -
French. Silk be mine.
Both. And, we’ll have no offence, man!
French. The ships of war I’ve lately made
You thought were for invasion;
I’ll charter them for peaceful trade,
For which there’s more occasion.
So if you bring iron, I’ll bring wine.
English. And if your freight’s silk, let coal be mine.
Both. And this be our invasion,
Our mutual invasion!
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