The Yeomen of The Guard - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

• Overture

Act I

• 1. "When maiden loves, she sits and sighs" (Phœbe)
• 1a. "When jealous torments rack my soul" (Wilfred) – see "Cut music"
• 2. "Tower warders, under orders" (Crowd and Yeomen, solo Second Yeoman)
• 3. "When our gallant Norman foes" (Dame Carruthers and Yeomen)
• 3a. "A laughing boy but yesterday" (Meryll); – see "Cut music"
• 4. "Alas! I waver to and fro" (Phœbe, Leonard and Meryll)
• 5. "Is life a boon?" (Fairfax)
• 6. "Here's a man of jollity" (Chorus)
• 7. "I have a song to sing, O!" (or, "The Merryman and his Maid") (Point, Elsie, and chorus)
• 8. "How say you, maiden, will you wed?" (Lieutenant, Elsie, Point)
• 9. "I've jibe and joke" (Point)
• 10. "'Tis done! I am a bride!" (Elsie)
• 11. "Were I thy bride" (Phœbe)
• 12. Finale Act I (Ensemble)
  • "Oh, Sergeant Meryll, is it true?"
  • "To thy fraternal care, thy sister I commend"
  • "The pris'ner comes to meet his doom"
  • "M'lord, m'lord.... As escort for the prisoner"
  • "All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave"

Act II

• 13. "Night has spread her pall once more" (People, Dame Carruthers, Yeomen)
• 14. "Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon" (Point)
• 15. "Hereupon we're both agreed" (Point and Wilfred)
• 16. "Free from his fetters grim" (Fairfax)
• 17. "Strange adventure" (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax, Meryll)
• 18. "Hark! What was that, sir?" ... "Like a ghost his vigil keeping" (Meryll, Fairfax, Lieutenant, Wilfred, Point, Ensemble)
• 19. "A man who would woo a fair maid" (Fairfax, Elsie, Phœbe)
• 20. "When a wooer goes a-wooing" (Elsie, Fairfax, Phœbe, Point)
• 21. "Rapture, rapture" (Dame Carruthers, Sergeant Meryll)
• 22. Finale Act II (Ensemble)
  • "Comes the pretty young bride"
  • "Oh, day of terror!"
  • "Leonard, my loved one, come to me"
  • "I have a song to sing, O!"