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% Abkürzungen

  tonText = \lyricmode {
    To -- night, to -- night,
    won't be just an -- y night.
    To -- night there will be no morn -- ing star.
    To -- night, to -- night,
    I'll see my love to -- night.
    And for us stars will stop where they are!
    To -- day the min -- utes seem like hours,
    the hours go so slow -- ly and still the sky is light.
    Oh, moon grow bright,
    and make this end -- less day end -- less night to -- night!
  }

  preTextB = \lyricmode {
    Doo doo doo doo
    wit -- ty and bright!
    Oo
    La la la la
    la la la
    la la la
    Doo doo doo doo
    how she feels!
    Oo
    La la la la
    la la la
    la la la la la
    What mir -- ror, where?
    Which, what, where?
    Whom?
    Whom?
    Whom?
    Whom?
    La la la la
    la la la
    la la la
    Doo doo doo doo
    danc -- ing for joy!
    For she's loved by a pret -- ty won -- der -- ful boy!
  }

  marTextB = \lyricmode {
    Ma -- ri -- a.
    The most beau -- ti -- ful sound I ev -- er heard:
    Ma -- ri -- a.
    All the beau -- ti ful sounds of the world in a sin -- gle word:
    Ma -- ri -- a,
    Ma -- ri -- a,
    Ma -- ri -- a,
    Ma -- ri -- a.
    Ma -- ri -- a,
    I just met a girl named Ma -- ri -- a,
    and sud -- den -- ly that name will nev -- er be the same to me.
    Ma -- ri -- a!
    I've just kissed a girl named Ma -- ri -- a,
    and sud -- den -- ly I've found how won -- der -- ful a sound can be!
    Ma -- ri -- a!
    Say it loud and there's mu -- sic play -- ing.
    Say it soft and it's al -- most like pray -- ing.
    Ma -- ri -- a, I'll nev -- er stop say -- ing, “Ma -- ri -- a”.
    Oo
    Mm
  }

  ameTextA = \lyricmode {
    I like to be een A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    O. K. by me een A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    Ev -- 'ry -- thing free een A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    For a small fee en A -- mer -- ee -- ca!
  }

  ameTextBassA = \lyricmode {
    I know a boat you can get on.
    Hun -- dreds of peo -- ple in each °room -- ah
  }

  ameTextB = \lyricmode {
    Im -- mi -- grants go to A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    ma -- ny hel -- los in A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    Ev -- 'ry -- one knows een A -- mer -- ee -- ca,
    Puer -- to Ri -- co's een A -- mer -- ee -- ca!
  }

  oneText = \lyricmode {
    Make of our vows one last vow:
    On -- ly death will part us now.
    Oo
    Now it be -- gins,
    now we start one hand, one heart.
    %Ev -- en death won't part us now.
  }

  somText = \lyricmode {
    There's a place for us,
    some -- where a place for us.
    Peace and qui -- et and o -- pen air wait for us some -- where,
    some -- where.
    There's a place for us,
    a time and place for us.
    Hold my hand and we're half -- way there.
    Hold my hand and I'll take you there,
    some -- how, some -- day, some -- where.
  }

  ameTextC = \lyricmode {
    La la
    la la la la la la
    la la la la la la
    la la la la la la
    la la la
    la da
    da da da da da da
    ow ow ow
    la da da da da da
    da da da
  }

  ameTextD = \lyricmode {
    La la
    la la la la la la
    la la la la la la
    la la la la la,
    A -- mer -- ee -- ca!
    O -- le!
  }

% Die Textaufteilungen

  sopranText = \lyrics {
    %<+hier den Text für den Sopran eintragen+>
  }

  altText = \lyrics {
    %<+hier den Text für den Alt eintragen+>
  }

  tenorText = \lyrics {
    %<+hier den Text für den Tenor eintragen+>
  }

  bassText = \lyrics {
    \tonText
    \preTextB
    \marTextB
    _ _ _
    _ _ _
    \ameTextA
    \ameTextBassA
    \ameTextB
    \ameTextC
    \ameTextA
    \ameTextD
    \oneText
    \somText
  }