Purcell - Oedipus Rex - Music for a while

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Listen to the wonderful Alfred Deller :
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Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile, shall all, all all, shal all, shal all, shall all your cares beguile
Wond'ring, wond'ring how your pains were eas'd, eas'd, eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead, till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal, eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop from her head,
And the whip, and the whip from out her hands.
Music, music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile, shall all, all all, shal all, all all, shall all your cares beguile, all all, all all, all all, all all, shall all your cares beguile.