Bernstein: Candide / Act I - 4. Oh, Happy We - June Anderson, Jerry Hadley, London Symphony Orchestra

Soon, when we feel we can afford it

We’ll build a modest little farm

We’ll buy a yacht and live aboard it

Rolling in luxury and stylish charm

Cows and chickens

Social whirls

Peas and cabbage

Ropes of pearls

Soon there’ll be little ones beside us;

We’ll have a sweet Westphalian home

Somehow we’ll grow as rich as Midas;

We’ll live in Paris when we’re not in Rome

Smiling babies

Marble halls

Sunday picnics

Costume balls

Oh, won’t my robes of silk and satin

Be chic!

I’ll have all that I desire

Pangloss will tutor us in Latin

And Greek while we sit before the fire

Glowing rubies

Glowing logs

Faithful servants

Faithful dogs

We’ll round the world enjoying high life

All bubbly pink champagne and gold

We’ll lead a rustic and a shy life

Feeding the pigs and sweetly growing old

Breast of peacock

Apple pie

I love marriage

So do I

Oh, happy pair!

Oh, happy we!

It’s very rare

How we agree

The Baron and his family are outraged.

Candide is an

Illegitimate cousin, a social inferior.

How dare he embrace the

Daughter of a Westphalian Baron?

He is brutally expelled

From Schloss Thunder-ten-Tronck and wanders alone — with

Only his optimism to cling to