The Merry Widow - Vilia (Vilja) (Key: OR Gmaj)

Title: Vilia (Vilja)
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: The Merry Widow
Genre: Classical & Classical Crossover; Opera & Popera; Movie, Musical & Soundtrack
Language: English; German
Era: Not Specified
Key: OR Gmaj
Backing vocals: No
More info: The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by composer Franz Lehár.
Lyrics: Yes
 
There once was a Vilja, a witch of the wood
A hunter beheld her alone as she stood
The spell of her beauty upon him was laid
He look'd and he longed for the magical maid
 
For a sudden tremor ran
Right thro' the love bewilder'd man
And he sigh'd as a hapless lover can
 
Vilja, O Vilja! The witch of the wood
Would I not die for you, dear, if I could?
Vilja, O Vilja, my love and my bride
Softly and sadly he sigh'd
 
Vilja, O Vilja! The witch of the wood
Would I not die for you, dear, if I could?
Vilja, O Vilja, my love and my bride
Softly and sadly he sigh'd
 
The wood maiden smiled, and no answer she gave
But beckon'd him into the shade of the cave
He never had known such a rapturous bliss
No maiden of mortals so sweetly could kiss
 
As before her feet he lay
She vanish'd in the wood away
And he call'd vainly till his dying day
 
Vilja, O Vilja! The witch of the wood
Would I not die for you, dear, if I could?
Vilja, O Vilja, my love and my bride
Softly and sadly he sigh'd
 
Vilja, O Vilja! The witch of the wood
Would I not die for you, dear, if I could?
Vilja, O Vilja, my love and my bride
Softly and sadly he sigh'd
Sadly he sigh'd: Vilja
 
Composer: F. LEHAR/LEON VICTOR/LEO STEIN (CHAPPELL AFRICA)