[Lyric] Ferret Song (My Life With Albertine)

[MARCEL, spoken]
I follow first my ears, then my thumping heart down a path into the woods, where I reach a clearing on the cliff. And peeking from behind a bush, I see...

[3 GIRLS]
Oh Ferret of Fairywood he just ran by
Oh Ferret of Fairywood he passed by me
Oh Ferret of Fairywood

[ALBERTINE]
Whom will I marry?

[3 GIRLS]
Oh Ferret of Fairywood

[ALBERTINE]
Whom will I love?

[3 GIRLS]
Oh Ferret of Fairywood now come to me
Oh Ferret of Fairywood take him my glove
Sweet ladies and gents diddle and diddle
Sweet ladies and gents diddle di do

[ALBERTINE]
Marry I will

[3 GIRLS]
Diddle and diddle

[ALBERTINE]
Just tell me who

[3 GIRLS]
Diddlе di do

Oh Ferret of Fairywood wherе could he be?
Oh Ferret of Fairywood where has he gone?
Oh Ferret of Fairywood

[ALBERTINE]
Will I have children?

[3 GIRLS]
Oh Ferret of Fairywood

[ALBERTINE]
Or will I have none?
[MARCEL, spoken (3 GIRLS)]
Since my first sighting of Albertine, I thought of her maybe a thousand times, carried on unspoken conversations in which I made her question me, answer me, think, act! But those have been imaginary Albertines, and here she was! In the flesh!
(La la la la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la la la)

[3 GIRLS, spoken]
Oh!

[MARCEL, spoken]
Can I play too?

[ALBERTINE, ANDREE, (ROSAMUNDE), MARCEL IN CANON]
Oh Ferret of Fairywood where could she be? (Oh Ferret of Fairywood where could he be?)
Oh Ferret of Fairywood where has she gone? (Oh Ferret of Fairywood where has he gone?)
Oh Ferret of Fairywood will we have children? (Oh Ferret of Fairywood will I have children?)
Oh Ferret of Fairywood (Oh)

[ALL UNISON]
Or will I have none?