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When We Are Wed - Once on This Island Ensemble/LaChanze/Nikki Rene/Jerry Dixon

Written by：Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty

My dear mademoiselle I have something to say

Something I fear was left unsaid

Many thanks for all you've given daniel

But do not be misled

My dear mademoiselle you dance so very well

I pray you'll dance for daniel

And for me when we are wed

Ti moune andrea and I have been promised

To each other since we were children

Our parents are old friends

But daniel this is how things are done

Ti moune it's expected

Daniel please we can still be together

We'll race away in a car

I can't change who I am or where I'm from

As silver as the moon

There will always be a place for you here

We will live beside the sea

We'll have children

A garden and a tree

Ti moune I thought you understood

We can never marry

Oh gods oh gods are you there

Are you there

There can never be anything

Between a peasant and a grand home

They despise us for our blackness

Marry you you are mad

You're not supposed to be in here

Now what can he want

With a woman like that

If he lives how angry the gods will be

The boy has the will of the devil himself

He'll soon throw her out

What can a peasant do for a grand home

But shine his shoes

He will not want you ti moune

Blacker than coal and low as dirt

I can tell you this

They'll never stand before a priest

Some girls you marry some you love

Oh ti moune what has this boy done to you

The girl will have the gods to repay

The gods to repay the gods to repay