Peace And Quiet

Album: The Water Gipsies (1955)
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  • "Peace And Quiet" is the 9th musical number - excluding the Overture - from the 1955 musical The Water Gipsies. Like all the other songs in the show it has music by Vivian Ellis and lyrics by A.P. Herbert. It segues into "Little Boat," which is the only old song in the show, having been written decades earlier for the 1932 film of the same name. >>>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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