Oh! Oh! Antonio for cor anglais and guitar by David Warin Solomons English Horn - Digital Sheet Music

Instrumental arrangement (with variation) of the old music hall song Oh! Oh! AntonioThe sound sample is an electronic previewWords of the original song:1. In quaint native dress an Italian maidWas deep in distress as the streets she strayedSearching in every part for her false sweetheartAnd his ice cream cartHer English was bad it cannot be deniedAnd so to herself in Italian she cried"Oh! Oh! Antonio!He's gone awayLeft me alone-i-oAll on my own-i-oI want to meet him with his new sweetheartThen up will go Antonio and his ice cream cart"2. So sad grew the plight of this fair young lassShe'd faint at the sight of an ice cream glassShe dreamed nigh ev'ry day he'd come back to stayBut he'd fade awayHer old hurdygurdy all day she'd paradeAnd this she would sing to each tune that it played:"Oh! Oh! Antonio!He's gone awayLeft me alone-i-oAll on my own-i-oI want to meet him with his new sweetheartThen up will go Antonio and his ice cream cart"3. She sought in despair for Antonio,And looked ev'rywhere that she thought he'd go.Soon she to pine began as each face she'd scanFor her ice cream man.She faded away, but they say in the streetThe ghost of that girl in Italian repeats:"Oh! Oh! Antonio!He's gone awayLeft me alone-i-oAll on my own-i-oI want to meet him with his new sweetheartThen up will go Antonio and his ice cream cart"