[Lyric] An Officers Wife (Diana Original Broadway Cast)

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
A long time ago, a princess like you
Was young and so scared of all she must do
She married a prince, a captain at sea
The King sent them away so the princess could be an officer's wife
Oh, just an officer's wife...
[spoken] They were stationed at a naval base in Malta, which was then part of the King's vast empire

[sung] The day she arrived, she knew things had changed
She was one of the girls which seemed rather strange
She made her own plans, she wrote her own rules
She'd drive into town and leave home her jewels
An officer's wife
Oh, just an officer's wife...
[spoken] And for a time, her life seemed just as ordinary as the other ones

[sung, overlapped by vocalizing MALE ENSEMBLE] At night, she would sleep so soundly
In the arms of her sailor prince
He loved her so profoundly;
They haven't felt such happiness since
She and her prince...
[MALE ENSEMBLE]
But then the King died

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
And she was crowned Queen
Now, wherever she went, she caused quite a scene
Photographers snapped her every move
This frightened, young girl with so much to prove

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
An officer's wife

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
Whatever became of that officer's wife?
[spoken] All right, Diana - you and Charles are to be divorced. And your plans now?

[DIANA]
Once the boys are older, I'd like to go to America

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
A country unafraid to express its every emotion... you'll fit right in

[DIANA]
And they don't have princesses, so they'll allow me to be who I truly am. And perhaps this Queen, perhaps one day she too may rediscover a bit of who she once was

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
As I said, don't be foolish
[sung] Now, she sometimes reflects on her unusual life
And that unusual year she was an officer's wife
[MALE ENSEMBLE]
She never complained

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
She never complained

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
She was good English stock

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
She was good English stock
And her citizens saw [with MALE ENSEMBLE] she was their rock

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
The country she loved

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
The country she loved

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
Loved her in return

[QUEEN ELIZABETH]
Loved her in return
Her subjects became her major [overlapped by vocalizing MALE ENSEMBLE] concern
An officer's wife
Whatever became of that officer's wife?
Oh, just an officer's wife...