Video Information

• Choir: The Girl Choir of South Florida
• Piece: Mother, Please Explain
• Composer:  J. B. Weckerlin
• Arranger:  John Lewers
• Conductor:  Wallis Peterson
• Voices:  SSA
• Genres: Folk/Ethnic
• "Mother, Please Explain", No. 2 from "Bergerettes". Traditional French country song, from a setting by J. B. Weckerlin, arr. John Lewers. English translation by Sigmund Spaeth.
  
  Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal C...  more"Mother, Please Explain", No. 2 from "Bergerettes". Traditional French country song, from a setting by J. B. Weckerlin, arr. John Lewers. English translation by Sigmund Spaeth.
  
  Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese.
  
  
  Mother, please explain, what is love? Won't you tell me?
  Does one feel joy, or is it sad?
  How am I to know what of late befell me?
  For now my life no more is glad.
  
  Oh, tell me, is loving always kind?
  Suppose a gentle swain is sighing,
  Should I be denying?
  
  Not long since, to me came a shepherd fair
  Handsome as could be, and promptly he did swear
  That he loved me well.
  
  How could I tell? How could I tell?
  If he should come and say the same again,
  What shall I answer then?
  What shall I answer then?
  
  No one in the village compares with his beauty
  Whatever he may do or say
  Is so full of charm that one feels it a duty
  Always to let him have his way
  
  Why should we not love for just a day?
  When such a gentle heart is sighing,
  Should I be denying?
  
  Thus it is with me since this shepherd fair,
  Handsome as could be, did come to me and swear
  That he loved me well.
  
  How could I tell? How could I tell?
  If he should come and say the same again,
  What shall I answer then?
  What shall I answer then?  less