Maids of Cadiz

1874 Music by Leo Delibes
Lyrics by Alfred de Musset (French)

Adapted for 1939 film “That Certain Age” with Deanna Dubin

(Cadiz is a port city in southwestern Spain)

We had just seen the bull,
Three boys, three girls,
On the lawn it was sunny3
And we were dancing a bolero
At the sound of the castanets.
‘Tell me, this morning,
If I look well,