From the comic opera “Sweethearts”, 1913.
Words by Robert B. Smith.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
When Love would have stood as my master
When Love would have led me a pace
My heart never beat any faster
And I only laugh’d in his face
Girls fair as the rarest of flowers
Girls all very charming to see
I’ve woo’d in the fairest bowers
Still you find me happily free
While my heart is my own and love I deny
Still, when I am alone for love do I sigh
But ev’ry lover must meet his fate
So for that hour my heart will wait
As all surrender (who would defy?)
To tempting kisses tender, so will I, will I
Sung here by Vancha March: