Gilbert and Sullivan Edition

Overture

List and learn

Good morrow, pretty maids

For the merriest fellows are we

See, see at last they come to make their choice

Buon' giorno, signorine!

We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary

And now to choose our brides!

Are you peeping?

Thank you gallant gondolieri

From the sunny Spanish shore

In enterprise of martial kind

O rapture, when alone together

There was a time, a time for ever gone

I stole the Prince

But, bless my heart, consider my position!

Try we life-long we can never

Bride-groom and bride!

When a merry maiden marries

Kind sir, you cannot have the heart, our lives to part

Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief

Then one of us will be a Queen

Now pray, what us the cause of this

Replying, we sing as one individual

For ev'ryone who feels inclined

Come let's away - our island crown awaits me

Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear

Then away they go to an island fair

Of happiness the very pith

Rising early in the morning

Take a pair of sparkling eyes

Here we are, at the risk of our lives

After sailing to this land

Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero

There lived a king, as I've been told

In a contemplative fashion

With ducal pomp and ducal pride

This polite attention

On the day when I was wedded

To help unhappy commoners

Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders

I am a courtier grave and serious

Here is a case unprecedented!

Now let the loyal lieges gather round

Speak woman speak, we're all attention!

The royal prince was by the king entrusted

Luiz! Casilda!

One more, gondolieri

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Won't it be a pretty wedding?

Pretty Lisa, fair and tasty

By the mystic regulation

Were I a king in very truth

How would I play this part

My goodness me! What shall I do?

Ten minutes since I met a chap

About a century since

Strange the views some people hold

Now take a card, and gaily sing

The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig

A pattern to professors of monarchical autonomy

As o'er out penny roll we sing

When you find you're a broken-down critter

Come hither, all you people

As before you we defile

Your loyalty our... At the outset I may mention

Yes, Ludwig and his Julia are mated!

Take care of him - he's much too good to live!

Now Julia, come, consider it from this dainty point of

Your Highness, there's a party at the door

Now away to the wedding we go

So ends my dream...Broken ev'ry promise plighted

If the light of love's lingering ember

Come, bumpers-aye, ever-so-many

Why, who is this approaching?

The Prince of Monte-Carlo

His Highness we know not

We're rigged out in magnificent array

Dance

Take my advice - when deep in debt

Hurrah! Now away to the wedding

Well, you're a pretty kind of fellow

Happy couples, lightly treading

Overture di Ballo

Allegro moderato alla Marcia

Allegretto grazioso

Overture

We shall sail the ocean blue

Hail! Men o'war's men..I'm called little buttercup

The nightingale sighed

A maiden fair to see

My gallant crew...I am the Captain of the Pinafore

Sir, you are sad

Sorry her lot who loves too well

Over the bright blue sea

Sir Joseph's barge is seen

Now give three cheers...I am the monarch of the sea

When I was a lad

A British tar

Refrain, audacious tar

Can I survive this overbearing

Entracte

Fair moon to thee I sing

Things are seldom what they seem

The hours creep on apace

Never mind the why and wherefore

Kind Captain, I've important information

Carefully on tip-toe...He is an Englishman

Farewell, my own

A many years ago

A joy! Oh rapture unforseen

Overture

Tripping hither, tripping thither

Iolanthe! From thy dark exile

Good morrow, good mother, Good mother, good morrow

Fare thee well, attractive stranger

Good morrow, good lover! Good lover, good morrow!

None shall part us from each other

Loudly let the trumpet bray

Entrance of the Lord Chancellor tha's

The law is the embodiment

My well-beloved Lord

Nay, tempt me not

Spurn not the nobly born

Lords, it may not be

Said I to myself, said I

When darkly looms the day

When all night long a chap remains

Strephon's a member of Parliament

When Britain really ruled the waves

In vain to us you plead

Oh, foolish fay

Though p'r'aps I may incur your blame

Love unrequited

If you go in you're sure to win

If you're weak enough to tarry

My Lord, a suppliant at your feet

It may not be

Soon as we may, off and away

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If you want to know who we are

Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...

A wand'ring minstrel I

Our great Mikado, virtuous man

Young man, despair

And I have journey'd for a month

Behold the Lord High Executioner

As someday it may happen that a victim...

Comes a train of little ladies

Three little maids from school are we

So please you, Sir, we much regret

Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted

I am so proud, If I allowed

With aspect stern and gloomy stride

The threaten'd cloud has pass'd away

Your revels cease! Assist me, all of you!

Oh fool, that flee-est My hallow'd joys!

For he's going to marry Yum-Yum

The hour of gladness is dead and gone

Ye torrents roar! Ye tempests howl!

Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tresses

The sun whose rays are all ablaze

Brightly dawns our wedding day

Here's a how-de-do!

Miya sama, miya sama, o n'mma no maye ni

From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect

A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist

The criminal cried as he dropp'd him down

See how the fates their gifts allot

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la

Alone and yet alive

Hearts do not break! They sting and ache

On a tree by a river a little tom tit

There is beauty in the bellow of the blast

Fanfare

For he's gone and married Yum-Yum

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Twenty love-sick maidens we

Still brooding on their mad infatuation!

I cannot tell what this love may be

Twenty love-sick maidens we

The soldiers of our Queen

If you want a receipt for that popular mystery

In a doleful train two and two we walk all day

Twenty love-sick maidens we

When I first put this uniform on

Am I alone and unobserved?

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic..

Long years ago - fourteen, maybe

Prithee, pretty maiden - Prithee

Though to marry you

Let the merry cymbals sound

Now tell us, we pray you

Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity

Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted

Your maiden hearts, ah, do steel

Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity

We've been thrown over, we're aware

And are you going a ticket to buy?

Hold! Stay your hand!

True love must single hearted be

I hear the soft note of the echoing voice

But who is this, whose god-like grace...

List Reginald, whilst I confess a love that's all...

On such eyes as maidens cherish

Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year

Silvered is the raven hair

Turn, oh turn in this direction

A magnet hung in a hardware shop

Love is a plaintive song

So go to him and say to him, with compliment ironical

It's clear that the mediaeval art alone retains...

If Saphir I choose to marry, I shall be fixed...

When I go out of the door

I'm a Waterloo House young man

After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Overture

Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry

When Fred'ric was a little lad

Oh, better far to live and die

Oh, false one, you have deceived me

Climbing over rocky mountain

Stop! ladies, pray! A man!

Oh, is there not one maiden breast

Oh, sisters, deaf to pity's name, For shame!

Poor wand'ring one!

What ought we to do, Gentle sisters say?

How beautifully blue the sky

Stay, we must not lose our senses

Hold, Monsters!

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

Oh, men of dark and dismal fate

Hail Poetry, thou heav'n born maid!

You may go, for you're at liberty

Pray observe the magnanimity

Oh, dry the glist'ning tear

Then Frederic

When the foeman bares his steel

Now for the pirates lair!

When you had left our pirate fold

Away, away, my heart's on fire

All is prepared

Stay, Fred'ric stay!

Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate

Oh, here is love and here is truth

No, I'll be brave

Sergeant approach (Dialogue)

When a felon's not engaged in his employment

A rollicking band of pirates we

With cat-like tread

Hush! Hush! Not a word

Sighing softly to the river

Now what is this, and what is that

We triumph now

Away with them, and place them at the bar

Poor wand'ring ones, though ye have surely straye

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I Search throughout the panorama

Now hearken to my strict command

Today we meet...Ida was a twelve-month old

From the distant panorama...We are warriors three

If you give me your attention

P'raps if you address the lady most politely

Towards the empyrean heights

Mighty maiden with a mission

Minerva...Oh, goddess wise

Gently, gently, evidently

I am a maiden, cold and stately

The world is but a broken toy

A lady fair, of lineage high

The woman of the wisest wit

Now would you like to rule the roost

Merrily ring the luncheon bell

Would you know the kind of maid

Oh, joy! Our chief is sav'd

We may remark, tho' nothing can dismay us

Death to the invader

I built upon a rock

Whene'er I spoke sarcastic joke

When anger spreads his wing

This helmet I suppose

This is our duty plain

With joy abiding

Opening Dance

Poll's solo and Pas de deux

Belaye's solo

Pas de trois

Finale

Poll's solo - Jasper's solo (Intermezzo)

Belayes's solo and Sailors' Drill

Poll's solo

Entry of Belaye with Blanche as Bride

Reconciliation

Grand Finale

Overture

Fair is rose as bright as May day

Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, his leisure and his riches

If somebody there chanced to be

I know a youth who loves a little maid

From the briny sea...I shipp'd, d'ye see

Hornpipe

My boy, you may take it from me

The battle's roar is over

In sailing o'er life's ocean wide

Cheerily carols the lark...To a garden full ... fposies

Welcome, gentry

Oh why am I moody and sad?

You understand? I think I do

Hail the bride of seventeen summers

Hold, bride and bridegroom

Overture, Original version

I once was as meek as a newborn lamb

Happily coupled are we

In bygone days I had thy love

Painted emblems of a race

When the night wind howls

He yields! He yields!

I once was a very abandon'd person

My eyes are fully open to my awful situation

There grew a little flower

Oh, happy the lily when kiss'd by the bee

Overture

We sounded the trumpet

Stay, Bouncer, stay!

Hush'd is the bacon on the grid

My master is punctual always in business

Who are you, sir?

The buttercup dwells on the lowly mead

Not long ago...Finale

Overture

Ring forth, ye bells

Constance, my daughter

When he is here, I sigh with pleasure

The air is charged with amatory numbers

Time was, when love and I were well acquainted

Sir Marmaduke...Minuet

With heart and voice

My kindly friends...Oh, happy young heart

My child, I join in these congratulations

With heart and with voice

Welcome joy! adieu to sadness!

All is prepar'd for sealing and for sighing

Love feeds on many kinds of food

My name is John Wellington Wells

Sprites of earth and air

Now to the banquet we press

'Tis twelve, I think

Dear friends, take pity on my lot

Thou hast the pow'r....It is not love

I rejoice that it's decided

Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells...

Alexis! Doubt me not...The fearful deed is done

Oh, my voice is sad and low

Oh, joyous boon

Prepare for sad surprises

Or he or I must die

Introduction

The British Public here - you see

I loved her fondly

And now let's go back to where we were...Ah maiden fair

Where is he?

Once more the face I loved so well

Help! Ah Help!

Ho-guards! Minions!

Ladies and Gentlemen!

We gather from what you have said

Where is my daughter?

I'm a simple little child

My Father!

Finale: What do I see in this disguise

Imperial March

Introduction

In lazy langour (Phylla, Chorus)

O make way for the Wise Men ! (Chorus)

In every mental lore (Scaphio, Phantis, Chorus)

Let all your doubts take wing (Scaphio, Phantis)

Quaff the nectar (Chorus)

A king of autocratic power we (King, Chorus)

Altho' of native maids the cream (Nekaya, Kalyba)

Bold-fac'd ranger (Lady Sophy, King)

First you're born (King, Scaphio, Phantis)

Subjected to your heavenly gaze

Oh maiden rich in Girton lore (Chorus, Zara... Cpt...

Ah! gallant solduer, brave and true

It's understood, I think (Captain, Zara, Saphio...

Oh admirable art! (Zara, Captain Fitzbattleaxe)

Altho' your royal summons to appear (Finale, A. 1)

A Company Promoter this, with special education

Oh, Zara... A tenor, all singers above (Cpt.)

Words of love too loudly spoken (Zara, Cpt.)

Society has quite forsaken all (King, Chorus)

Entrance of Court

Drawing room music

This ceremonial...Eagle high... (King, Chorus)

With fury deep we burn (Scaphio, Phantis)

If you think that when...(King, Scaphio, Phantis)

With wily brain.... (Tarara, Phantis, Scaphio)

A wonderful joy our eyes to bless (Goldbury)

Then I may sing and play?

Oh, would some demon power... When a maid (Sophy)

Ah, Lady Sophy (King, Lady Sophy)

Oh rapture unrestrained (King, Lady Sophy)

Tarantella...Upon our sea-girt land (Chorus)

There's a little group of isles beyond the wave

Overture Macbeth

Victoria and Merrie England

Overture: Marmion

Overture

"When maiden loves"

"Tower warders under orders"

When our gallant Norman foes

"Alas! I waver to and fro"

"Is life a boon?"

"Here's a man of jollity"

I have a song to sing, oh!

"How say you, maiden"

"I've jibe and joke"

"'Tis done! I am a bride!"

"Were I thy bride"

"Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders", "Leonard Meryll!", "Forbear, my friends", "Didst thou not", "Leonard!", "As escort for the prisoner"

"Night has spread her pall once more"

"Oh! a private buffoon"

"Hereupon we're both agreed"

"Free from his fetters grim"

"Strange adventure!"

"Hark! What was that, sir?"-"Who fired that shot?"-"Like a ghost his vigil keeping..."-"The river must be dragged"

"A man who would woo a fair maid"

"When a wooer goes a-wooing"

"Rapture, rapture!"

"Comes the pretty young bride"- "'Tis said to you"-"Hold, pretty one!"

Hark the Hour of Ten is Sounding

When First my Old, Old Love I Knew

When I good friends was called to the Bar

Where is the Plaintiff?

May it please you my Lud!

Oh, Gentlemen Listen I Pray

A nice dilemma

I Love him

From The Sunny Spanish Shore

There Was A Time, A Time For Ever Gone

To Help Unhappy Commoners

Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen

Love Unrequited (Nightmare Song)

None Shall Part Us From Each Other

If You Go In You're Sure To Win

When I Went To The Bar (Said I To Myself, Said I)

Though P'r'aps I May Incur Your Blame

My Boy, You May Take It From Me

I Know A Youth Who Loves A Little Maid

There Grew A Little Flower

The Battle's Roar Is Over

In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide

Hereupon We're Both Agreed

I've Jibe And Joke

When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing

A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid