ANNA



Your servant! Your servant!

Indeed I'm not you servant --

Although you give me less than servant's pay --

I'm a free and independent employ [pronounced "employay"]...(sigh) employee.



Because I'm a woman

You think, like ev'ry woman

I have to be a slave or concubine.

You conceited, self-indulgent libertine! ...(sigh) libertine! [pronounced "liberteen"]



How I wish I called him that!

Right to his face! Libertine!

And while we're on the subject, sire,

There are certain goings on around this place

That I wish to tell you I do not admire:

I do not like polygamy

Or even moderate bigamy

I realize

That in your eyes

That clearly makes a prig o' me.



But I am from a civilized land called Wales!

Where men like you are locked in county jails!

In your pursuit of pleasure, you

Have mistresses who treasure you



They have no ken of other men

Beside whom they can measure you



A flock of sheep and you're the only ram

No wonder you're the wonder of Siam!



(Spoken) I'm rather glad I didn't say that... not with the women right there...and the children



(Singing) The children, the children,

I'll not forget the children,

No matter where I go I'll always see

Those little faces looking up at me...



At first, when I started to teach,

They were shy and remained out of reach,

But lately I've thought

One or two have been caught

By a word I have said

Or a sentence I've read

And I've heard an occasional question

That implied, at least, a suggestion

That the work I've been trying to do

Was beginning to show with a few...

-a