146 Steal me, sweet thief t THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF 4 Gian Carlo Mene 4 Larghetto 5 ————e 4 5 et 3. LAETITIA: > SSS —— ES What a curse for a wo - man is a tim - id mant A ¢ Teotta voce) la = 4 atempo Ke | 5 Poco piit mosso ‘ bue he made mo ad-van ces, Miss Todd schemes and labors ® ——! == Jeo t i i a é © 1943, 1954 by Franco Colombo, Inc. Copyright Renewed and Assigned to BEAM ME UP MUSIC (ASCAP) All Rights Administered by WARNER BROS, PUBLICATIONS US, INC. ‘AI! Rights Reserved include Public Performance. Used by Permission dasaadionbacs, 0147 a —— mon. ey. She robs friends. and neigh - bors the . — = = == T v T —— ——— | ie d __ 4 ‘Tempo I f club and the church, He takes all the money with a smilethat en-twan ~ ces but still makes no ad-vane es, ‘The 2] eS x = SS old wo-man sighs and makes lan-guid eyes.PERT All the drawers are wide op <— 16 (with disgust) er seems pleased nor shocked. He eats and drinks and af pesanie a a™~ he talks of base-ball and that is all. a@cursefor a wo-man is a tim-id man!149 —— rall, molto Adagio ma non troppo Steal me, Oh, —steal_-me,sweer thief, for time's _— wp espres, | hy = Sd = 7 affrettando un poco flight is steal. ing my youth and the cares of life steal RE eo ee pochiss. riten. fleeting time___ Steal me, thief, for life is brief __ and full of a tempo poco rit, theft and — strife, — And then with fur - tive step150 a tempo » 2 ome death comes and steals time and life, Osweet thief, I pray make me fore dark death ______— steals hee prey a tempo. ma flutuante Steal my lips bbe fore they Beath must Steal my checks before they've sunk and de-cayed1st -muovenda un poco e erese Steaimy breath fore it will fade, ee Steal my lips, steal my heart, ssubito| dine so molto rit. pp etempo steal my cheeks, steal, oh steal my ce make me die 58 ig be riten, a tempo pos a tempo 56 of —— For time's flight is steal - ing my youth, _ poco rit — PE