# Oh! Woman, Sweet Woman

- Music: Alfred Cellier (died 1891)
- Words: James Robinson Planché (died 1880)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6480111

## 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?  

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).