from Act I, Scene 2 of the English opera The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore

Libretto: John Latouche

Role: Elizabeth Doe (Baby Doe), the wife of a miner, Harvey Doe

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric coloratura

Setting: outside of the Clarendon Hotel, Leadville, Colorado, 1880

Synopsis: Baby Doe sits at a piano, playing and singing for herself. The song she sings sounds like an ordinary song about lost love. However, she is actually singing about her broken marriage with Harvey Doe and how it fell apart.