The Mikado Page #4

Very good. If you can draw

the line, so can I.

No! Stop! Listen one moment!

Be reasonable.

She'll be a widow in a month,

and you can marry her then.

Yes, that's true, of course.

I quite see that.

But dear me. My position during

the next month will be most unpleasant.

Most unpleasant.

Not half so unpleasant

as my position at the end of it.

Yes, but dear me -

Oh, very well. I agree.

After all, it's only putting off

one's wedding for a month.

But you won't prejudice her

against me, will you?

You see, I've educated

her to be my wife.

She's been taught to regard me

as a wise and good man.

Now, I shouldn't like her views

on that point disturbed.

Trust me, she shall never learn

the truth from me.

# To ask you what you mean to do

we punctually appear #

# Congratulate me, gentlemen

I've found a volunteer #

# The Japanese equivalent

for hear, hear, hear #

# 'Tis Nanki-Poo #

# Hail, Nanki-Poo #

# I think he'll do #

# Yes, yes, he'll do #

# He yields his life

if I'll Yum-Yum surrender #

# Now, I adore that girl

with passion tender #

# And could not yield her

with a ready will #

# Or her allot

if I did not #

# Adore myself with passion #

# Tenderer still #

# With passion tenderer still #

# Ah, yes, he loves himself #

# With passion tenderer still #

# Take her

She's yours ##

# The threatened cloud has passed away #

# And brightly shines the dawning day #

# What though the night

may come too soon #

# There's yet a month of afternoon #

# Then let the throng

of joy advance #

# With laughing song

and merry dance #

# Then let the throng

of joy advance #

# With laughing song

and merry dance #

# With laughing song

and merry dance #

# With laughing song #

# With joyous shout

With joyous shout and ringing cheer #

# Inaugurate

Inaugurate their brief career #

# With joyous shout and ringing cheer

Inaugurate their brief career #

# With joyous shout and ringing cheer

Inaugurate their brief career #

# Laughing song, merry dance

With laughing song and merry dance #

# As in a month you've got to die #

# If Ko-Ko tells us true #

# 'Twere empty compliment to cry #

# Long life to Nanki-Poo #

# But as one month you have to live #

# As fellow citizen #

# This toast with three times three

we'll give #

# Long life #

# Long life to you #

# Long life to you #

# Long life #

# To you #

# Till then #

# May all good fortune

all good fortune prosper you #

# May you have health

May you have health and riches too #

# May all good fortune prosper you

May you have health and riches too #

- # May you succeed in all you do #

- # Long life to you till then ##

# Your revels cease #

# Assist me, all of you #

# Why, who is this whose evil eyes

rain blight on our festivities #

# I claim my perjured lover #

# Nanki-Poo #

# Oh, fool

to shun delights that never cloy #

# Go, leave thy deadly work undone #

# Come back, oh, shallow fool #

# Come back to joy #

# Away, away, ill-favored one #

Ah! 'Tis Katisha,

the maid of whom I told you.

# No, you shall not go #

# These arms shall thus enfold you #

# Away, nor prosecute your quest #

# From our intention well expressed #

# You cannot turn us #

# The state of your connubial views #

# Towards the person you accuse #

# Does not concern us #

# For #

- # He's going to marry Yum-Yum #

- # Yum-Yum #

# Your anger pray bury

for all will be merry #

- # I think you had better succumb #

- # Cumb, cumb #

# And join our expressions of glee #

- # On this subject I pray you be dumb #

- # Dumb, dumb #

# You'll find there are many

who'll wed for a penny #

- # The word for your guidance is

"mum" # - # Mum, mum #

# There's lots of good fish in the sea #

# On this subject we pray

you be dumb Dumb, dumb #

# We think you had better succumb

Cumb, cumb #

# You'll find there are many who'll

wed for a penny, who'll wed for a penny #

# There's lots of good fish in the sea

There are lots of good fish in the sea #

# There's lots of good fish

good fish in the sea #

# There's lots of good fish good fish

in the sea, in the sea, in the sea #

# In the sea, in the sea #

# Oh, faithless one #

# This insult you shall rue #

# In vain for mercy #

# On your knees you'll sue #

# I'll tear the mask

from your disguising #

Now comes the blow.

# Prepare yourselves

for news surprising #

How foil my foe?

# No minstrel he, despite bravado #

Ha, ha. I know.

# He is the son of your #

# O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

# In vain you interrupt

with this tornado #

# He is the only son of your #

# O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

# I'll spoil #

# O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

# Your gay gambado #

# He is the son #

# O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

- # Of your #

- # O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

- # The son of your #

- # O ni, bikkuri shakkuri to #

# Oh, yar #

# Oh, yar #

# We'll hear no more, ill-omened owl #

# To joy we soar, despite your scowl #

# The echoes of our festival

shall rise triumphant over all #

# Prepare for woe, ye haughty lords #

# At once I'll go Mikadowards #

# We do not heed their dismal sound #

# For joy reigns everywhere around #

# We do not heed their dismal sound #

# For joy reigns everywhere around #

# The echoes of our festival #

# Shall rise triumphant over all #

- # Shall rise triumphant #

- # Shall rise triumphant #

# Triumphant over all #

# Shall rise triumphant over all #

# My wrongs with vengeance

shall be crowned #

# We do not heed their dismal sound #

# For joy reigns everywhere around #

# We do not heed their dismal sound #

# For joy reigns everywhere around #

- # My wrongs with vengeance shall be crowned #

- # We do not heed their dismal sound #

- # My wrongs with vengeance #

- # For joy reigns every... #

- # Shall #

- #... where #

- # Be #

- # A... #

- # Crowned #

- #... round ##

# Braid the raven hair

Weave the supple tress #

# Deck the maiden fair

in her loveliness #

# Paint the pretty face

Dye the coral lip #

# Emphasize the grace

of her ladyship #

# Art and nature thus allied #

# Go to make a pretty bride #

# Art and nature thus allied #

# Go to make a pretty bride ##

# The sun, whose rays are all ablaze #

# With ever-living glory #

# Does not deny his majesty #

# He scorns to tell a story #

# He don't exclaim

I blush for shame #

# So kindly be indulgent #

# But fierce and bold, in fiery gold #

# He glories all effulgent #

# I mean to rule the earth #

# As he the sky #

# We really know our worth #

# The sun and I #

# I mean to rule the earth

as he the sky #

# We really know our worth #

# The sun and I ##

Yes!

Everything seems to smile upon me.

I'm to be married today

to the man I love best...

and I believe

I'm the very happiest girl in Japan.

Well, dear, it can't be denied...

that the fact that your husband

is to be beheaded in a month...

is, in its way, a drawback.

It does seem to

take the top off it, you know.

I don't know about that.

It all depends.

At all events, he will

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