Arrangement for tenor/baritone and piano
Duration 2:45

From SEMMELWEIS (production in Hungarian)
Music: Ray Lustig
Libretto: Matthew Doherty

ENGLISH words:

On the streets of Vienna
You were a living city
On this table
Antiquity

I come down from the street
Where the lamps are lit
And sweepers sweep
This day for you could be a thousand years
Your ruined city waits
For the careful turning of a spade

Wipe the ash from your skin
And down into the ground
Give this mystery to me,
Archeology
I dig down, and down
Down and down through the layers

And in a ruined tomb I found my own
My own self lying there
My own self lying there
A careful spade
Still turning in my hand
Still turning in my hand
Turning in my hand.

Szilveszter Szabó, baritone
Budapest Operetta Theater
Daniel Dinyés, music director
Martin Boross, director

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