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This superb number for Carmen and Escamillo is another show stopper. Just as Escamillo is due to enter the arena, Carmen realises she has fallen (really, really fallen) in love with him. She ignores the warnings that her former lover, Don José, is seeking her out to kill her for her infidelity, a sad fact which is shortly manifested in a knife attack. But before this, Carmen and Escamillo declare their love for each other in this wonderful (brief) duet .

We've arranged it first in French and then repeated it in an English translation (experts' advice welcome), to give a reasonable audience interpretation as performed in our Village Singers' 2006 concert - A Taste of France.

If You Love Me!
(3½ bars Intro)

Escamillo:  Si tu m'ai - mes, Carmen,
Si tu m'ai - mes, Carmen,
Tu Pour - ras, tout à l'heure,
Ètre fière de moi!
Si tu m' - ai - mes,
Si tu m' - ai - mes!

Carmen:  Ah! je t'aime Escamillo,
Je t'aime et que je meu - re,
Si j'ai ja - mais ai - mé
Quel - qu'un au - tant que toi

Both:  Ah! je t'ai - - me - - -
Oui je t'ai - - me - -

(3½ bars Interlude)

Escamillo:  If you love me, sweet Carmen,
If you love me, Carmen,
I adore you, Carmen.
We'll be happy, my dear
If you love . . me,
If you love . . me.

Carmen:  Escamillo, I love you,
Love you only my dear,
I never loved another,
I'm  yours dear alone

Both:  Ah! I love . .  you . . .,
Yes I love . .  you . . .,

We hope you enjoy the song, but listen out also for the superb accompanying harmonies created by Georges.

Next, the whirling, twirling, very famous - Gypsy Song & Dance?

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