Oh! Woman, Sweet Woman
Music: Alfred Cellier (1844–1891) · Words: James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)
Oh! woman, sweet woman, our blessing our
bane, What will we not peril thy smiles to
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The words
Oh! woman, sweet woman, our blessing our
bane, What will we not peril thy smiles to
obtain; Wealth, honor, dominion,
and glory we prize, But as baubles to dazzle
of beauty the eyes; Lured on by their lustre,
we count not the cost, So woman be won,
what’s the world we have lost? Lured on by their
lustre we count not the cost, So woman be won,
what’s the world we have lost? So woman be won,
what’s the world we have lost?
Oh! but for the flame at Love’s altar they
caught, What bard would have sung or what
soldier have fought; How barren the conquest,
how poor the renown Had woman been wanting
the victor to crown. Had Love ne’er existed,
my sweet Madame Fame, The millions that seek
thee had ne’er known the name. Lured on by
Love’s lustre we count not the cost,
So woman be won, what’s the world we have lost?
So woman be won, what’s the world
we’ve lost?
About this song
- Music
- Alfred Cellier (1844–1891) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- James Robinson Planché (1796–1880) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1882, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:11
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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- Not offered in
- Egypt, Argentina, Bangladesh, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the member states of the Bangui Agreement (OAPI), Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, and wherever the site has not read the law
Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). “K-pop” and “anime songs” are said only where a source says so. Where songs from scores are offered.