A Weekend in the Country

Lyrics

[PETRA] Look, ma'am An invitation Here, ma'am Delivered by hand And, ma'am, I notice the stationery'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 [Opens the envelope, reads.] "Your presence" Just think of it, Petra! "Is kindly" It's at a ch�teau! "Requested" Et cetera, et cetera "Madame Leonora Armf" Oh, no! A weekend in the country! [PETRA] We'r5 invited? [ANNE] What a horrible plot! A weekend in th5 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] Here! The last place I'm going is there! [FREDRIK's study] [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 wherea fancy ch�teau, 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] Just a weekend in the country 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 [CHARLOTTE and ANNE having lunch.] [ANNE] 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] A weekend in the country Yes, it's only polite that we should [CHARLOTTE] Good [The Malcolms' house] [CARL-MAGNUS] Well? [CHARLOTTE] I've an intriguing little social item [CARL-MAGNUS] What? [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] Aha! [CHARLOTTE] Aha! [CARL-MAGNUS, slyly] Aha! [CHARLOTTE, nervously] Aha... [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 two thirty, 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 But I'm staying in town [Both households are seen simultaneously.] [CARL-MAGNUS, ANNE, PETRA] Go and pack We'll go My suits! Oh, good! [CHARLOTTE, FREDRIK] I won't! We will? [CARL-MAGNUS, ANNE, PETRA] My boots! We should Pack everything Pack everything white I own that shoots! Ma'am, it's wonderful news! [CARL-MAGNUS, FREDRIK, CHARLOTTE] No! Are you Charlotte! Sure it's alright? [CHARLOTTE, ANNE] I'm thinking it out We'd be rude to refuse [CARL-MAGNUS, FREDRIK, PETRA] Charlotte! Then we're off! We are? [CHARLOTTE, FREDRIK] There's no need to shout We'll take the car [CARL-MAGNUS, ANNE, PETRA & FREDRIK] Charlotte! We'll bring champagne [CHARLOTTE, ANNE, PETRA & FREDRIK] All right, then! And caviar! [ANNE, PETRA, FREDRIK, CHARLOTTE & CARL-MAGNUS] We're off on our way What a beautiful day 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 [PETRA] We are? [CHARLOTTE, ANNE & FREDRIK, HENRIK] I'm thinking it out We'll take the car In the country [CARL-MAGNUS, ANNE, PETRA & FREDRIK, HENRIK] Charlotte! We'll bring champagne The [CHARLOTTE, ANNE, PETRA & FREDRIK, HENRIK] There's no need to shout And caviar Bees in [ANNE, PETRA, FREDRIK, CHARLOTTE & CARL-MAGNUS, HENRIK] We're off and away Their hives What a beautiful day! [ANNE, PETRA, FREDRIK, HENRIK, CHARLOTTE, CARL-MAGNUS & QUINTET] 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 [QUINTET, HENRIK, CARL-MAGNUS, ANNE & PETRA] Twice as upset as in Shallow Charlotte, we're A Twice as upset as in Worldly Going Weekend Twice as upset as in People Charlotte, we're A Twice as upset as in Going Going Weekend, a Twice as upset as in Shallow Charlotte, we're Weekend, a Twice as upset as in People Going Weekend, a Twice as upset as in Going Charlotte Weekend, a Twice as upset as in Out of Out of Weekend out of [ANNE, PETRA, FREDRIK, HENRIK, CHARLOTTE, CARL-MAGNUS & QUINTET] Town!