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Shoo, shoo.

Pirates!

What? No! No! I'll get you for this.

Not in the water! No!

Happy birthday!

Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry

Fill, oh fill, the pirate glass

And to make us more than merry, let the pirate bumper pass!

For today our pirate friend, he rises from indentures freed

Strong his arm and keen his scent is

He's a pirate now, indeed

Here's good luck to Frederic's ventures

Frederic's out of his indentures

Happy 21st birthday!

One and 20 now he's rising

And alone he's fit to fly

Which we're bent on signalizing with unusual revelry

Here's good luck to Frederic's ventures

Frederic's out of his indentures

Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry

Fill, oh fill, the pirate glass

And to make us more than merry

Let the pirate bumper pass

Yes, Frederic.

From today, you'll rank as a full-blown member of our band.

My friends, I thank you all from my heart for your kind wishes.

Would that I could repay them as they deserve.

What do you mean?

Today, I am out of my indentures.

Today...

I leave you forever.

Hey. What?

This is quite unaccountable.

A keener hand at scuttling a Cunarder

or cutting a P&O never shipped a handspike!

Yes, I did my best for you.

And why?

Because it was my duty under my indentures.

And I am the slave of duty.

Oh.

As a child, I was regularly apprenticed to your band.

It was through an error.

An error? No matter.

The mistake was ours, not yours, and I was in honor bound by it.

What error?

Well, I dare not say,

for it would reflect upon my well-loved Ruth.

Ruth?

Nay, dear master,

my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery.

Better have it out at once.

When Frederic was a little lad

He proved so brave and daring

His father thought he'd 'prentice him to some career seafaring

I was, alas, his nursery maid

And so it fell to my lot

To take and bind the promising boy

Apprentice to a pilot

A ship's pilot?

A life not bad for a hardy lad

Though surely not a high lot

Though I'm a nurse

You might do worse than make your boy a pilot

I was a stupid nursery maid

On breakers always steering

And I did not catch the word aright

Through being hard of hearing

Mistaking my instructions which within my brain did gyrate

I took and bound this promising boy

Apprentice to a pirate

A sad mistake it was to make

And doom him to this vile lot

I bound him to a pirate, you

Instead of to a pilot

This afternoon my obligation ceases.

Aye.

Individually, I love you all with affection unspeakable.

But collectively,

I look upon you with a disgust

that amounts to absolute detestation.

Oh, pity me, beloved friends.

For such is my sense of duty,

that once out of my indentures,

I shall feel myself bound

to devote myself heart and soul

to your extermination.

No, no, no, no, Frederic.

If you conscientiously feel

that it is your duty to destroy us,

we cannot blame you for acting on that conviction.

Always act in accordance with the dictates

of your conscience, my boy,

and chance the consequences!

And besides, we can offer you

but little temptation to remain with us.

We don't seem able to make piracy pay.

I don't know why I'm sure, but I don't.

Well, I do know why.

Alas, I cannot tell you!

It would not be right.

Why not?

It's only...

11:56.

And you are one of us until the clock strikes 12.

Aye!

And until then, you are bound to protect our interests.

Hear, hear.

Well, then, it's my duty as a pirate to tell you

that you are too tender-hearted.

For instance, you make it a point of never attacking

a weaker party than yourselves.

And when you attack a stronger one,

you invariably get thrashed!

There's some truth in that.

And then again, you make it a point of never molesting an orphan.

Well, of course not! We're orphans ourselves! And know what it is like!

Yes, but it has got about. And what is the consequence?

Everyone we capture says he's an orphan!

The last three ships we took proved to be manned entirely by orphans.

One would think that Great Britain's mercantile fleet

was recruited solely from her orphan asylums.

And we know this is not the case.

Frederic, you wouldn't have us absolutely merciless?

Ah, well, there's my problem.

Till 12:00, I would, after 12:00, I wouldn't.

Oh, was ever a man placed in so delicate a situation.

Frederic.

Frederic. Frederic.

And, Ruth, your own Ruth whom you love so well,

who has won her middle-aged way into your boyish heart.

What is to become of her?

Oh, he will take you with him.

Well, Ruth.

I feel some little difficulty about you.

It's true I admire you very much.

But I've been constantly at sea since I was eight years old.

Yours is the only woman's face I've seen in that time.

I think it is a sweet face.

Ah, it is. Oh, it is.

I say, I think it is.

But as I've never had the opportunity

of comparing you with other women,

I just may be mistaken.

True.

Excuse me.

What a terrible thing it would be

if I were to marry this innocent person,

to find out that she is, on the whole...

...plain.

Plain? Oh, Ruth? Ruth is very...

Well...

Well?

Yes. Very well.

There are the remains of a fine woman about Ruth.

Do you really think so?

I do.

Well then, I will not be so selfish

as to take her from you.

In justice to her, and in consideration for you, sir,

I will leave her behind.

Oh.

Ah.

Oh.

Oh, no. No.

No!

No, Fredric. No, no. No, this must not be.

No, no! We are rough men! Rough!

Who lead a rough life.

Rough! Rough!

But we are not so utterly heartless

as to deprive thee of thy love!

I think I'm right in saying that there is not one here

who would rob thee of this inestimable treasure for all the world holds dear.

Not one!

I thought there wasn't.

Well, it's the top of the tide and we must be off ourselves.

There's the day's pillage to be done.

Man the foresail. Jib the top fold. Hoist the topsail.

Hoist the mainsail. Hoist the jibsail. Drop the anchor.

Weigh the anchor.

Hoist the topsail.

Frederic! Don't swim.

Take the dinghy.

And when your process of extermination begins,

let our deaths be as swift and painless

as you can conveniently make them.

I will.

By the love I have for you, I swear it!

Oh, would that you could render this extermination unnecessary,

by accompanying me back to civilization.

No, Frederic, it cannot be.

I don't think much of our profession.

But contrasted with respectability,

it is comparatively honest.

No, Frederic.

I shall live

and die

a Pirate King!

Oh, better far to live and die

Under the brave black flag I fly

Than play a sanctimonious part

With a pirate head and a pirate heart

Away to the cheating world go you

Where pirates all are well-to-do

But I'll be true to the song I sing

And live and die

A Pirate King

For I am a Pirate King

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King

But I am a Pirate King

You are! Hurrah for the Pirate King

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King

It is! Hurrah for the Pirate King

Hurrah for the Pirate

King

He is a Pirate King, he is

Hurrah for the Pirate King

And it is, it is a glorious thing

To be a Pirate King, it is

Hurrah for the Pirate King, hurrah for the Pirate King

When I sally forth to seek my prey

I help myself in a royal way

I sink a few more ships, it's true

Than a well-bred monarch ought to do

But many a king on a first-class throne

If he wants to call his crown his own

Must manage somehow to get through

More dirty work

Than ever I do

For

I am a Pirate King

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King

I am a Pirate King

You are, you are a Pirate King

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King, it is

Hurrah for the Pirate King

Hurrah for the Pira...

Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha

Ho

...rate King

Now watch it. Watch it carefully. That's it. That's it.

Now take my hand.

Be careful, don't rock the boat now.

Oh!

Ruth. Oh!

Tell me candidly, and without reserve.

Compared with other women,

how are you?

I will tell you truthfully.

I have a slight cold, but otherwise I'm quite well.

Well, I am sorry for your cold,

but I was referring rather to your personal appearance.

Compared with other women, are you...

You know...

Beautiful?

I have been told so, dear master.

Oh, but lately?

No. Years and years ago.

Well, what do you think of yourself?

It is a delicate question.

But I think I am a fine woman.

Thank you, Ruth, I believe you.

For I know you would not practice upon my inexperience.

I wish to do the right thing.

And if you are truly a fine woman,

well, then, your age shall be no obstacle to our union!

Hark! Surely, I hear voices!

Who has ventured to approach our all but inaccessible lair?

Can it be the Coast Guard?

Oh, yes, it's the Coast Guard.

No, it does not sound like the Coast Guard.

By all that's marvelous, a bevy of beautiful young maidens!

Oh, it's lost, lost, lost.

How lovely! How surpassingly lovely is the plainest of them.

What grace, what delicacy.

What refinement!

Oh, false one, you have deceived me

I have deceived you?

Yes! Deceived me

You told me you were fair as gold

And, master, am I not so

And now I see you're plain and old

I'm sure I'm not a jot so

Upon my innocence you play

I'm not the one to plot so

Your face is lined, your hair is gray

It's gradually got so

Faithless woman to deceive me

I who trusted so

Master, master, do not leave me

Hear me 'ere you go

Faithless woman

Master, master

Faithless woman

Master, master

Faithless woman Do not leave me

To deceive me Do not leave me

I who trusted so Hear me 'ere you go

Faithless woman to deceive me Master, master, do not leave me

I who trusted so Hear me 'ere you go

Ow!

My love without reflecting

Oh, do not be rejecting

Take a maiden tender

Her affection raw and green

At very highest rating

Has been accumulating

Summer's 17

Summer's 17

Don't, beloved master

Crush me with disaster

What is such a dower

To the dower I have here

Yes, your former master Don't, beloved master

Save you from disaster Crush me with disaster

Your love would be What is such a dower

Uncomfortably fervid, it is clear To the dower I have here?

My love unabating

If, as you are stating

Has been accumulating

Forty-seven years

Forty-seven years!

Forty-seven years

Faithless woman to deceive me

I who trusted so

Faithless woman to deceive me

Master, master, do not leave me

I who trusted Hear me 'ere you

So! Go!

Climbing over rocky mountain

Skipping rivulet and fountain

Passing where the willows quiver

By the ever rolling river

Swollen with the summer rain, the summer rain

Threading long and leafy mazes

Dotted with unnumbered daisies

Dotted, dotted with unnumbered daisies

Scaling rough and rugged passes

Climb the hardy little lassies

Till the bright seashore they gain

Scaling rough and rugged passes

Climb the hardy little lassies

Till the bright seashore they gain

Let us gaily tread the measure

Make the most of fleeting leisure

Hail it as a true ally

Though it perish by-and-by

Hail it as a true ally

Though it perish by-and-by

Every moment brings a treasure

Of its own especial pleasure

Though the moments quickly die

Greet them gaily as they fly

Greet them gaily

As they fly

Though the moments quickly die

Greet them gaily as they fly

Let us gaily tread the measure

Make the most of fleeting leisure

Hail it as a true ally

Though it perish by-and-by

Hail it as a true ally

Though it perish by-and-by

Let us gaily tread the measure

Make the most of fleeting leisure

Hail it as a true ally

A true ally!

We're quite alone. Suppose we take off our shoes.

And our stockings and paddle.

Paddle?

In all probability we are the first human beings

who ever set foot on this enchanting spot.

Except for the mermaids, it's the very place for mermaids.

Who are only human beings down to the waist.

And who can't be said strictly to set foot anywhere.

I'm going to take off my stocking.

Stop, ladies, pray

A man!

I had intended not to intrude myself upon your notice

In this effective but alarming costume

But under these peculiar circumstances

I feel it is my bounden duty to inform you

That your proceedings here will not be unwitnessed

But who are you, sir? Speak!

I am a pirate

A pirate! Horror!

Ladies, do not shun me

This evening I renounce my vile profession

And, to that end, o pure and peerless maidens

Oh, blushing buds of ever-blooming beauty

I, sore at heart, I, sore at heart

Implore your kind assistance

How pitiful his tale

How rare his beauty

How pitiful his tale

How rare

His beauty

Oh, is there not one maiden breast

Which does not feel the moral beauty

Of making worldly interest

Subordinate to sense of duty?

Who would not give up willingly

All matrimonial ambition

To rescue such a one as I

From his unfortunate

Position?

From his

Position

Oh, is there not one maiden here

Whose homely face and bad complexion

Have caused all hope to disappear

Of ever winning man's affection?

To such a one, if such there be

I swear by heaven's arch above you

If you will cast your eyes on me

However plain you be

I'll love you

However plain you be

If you will cast your eyes on me

However plain you be

I'll love

You!

I'll love you

I'll love

You

Alas!

There's not one maiden here

Whose homely face and bad complexion

Have caused all hope to disappear

Of ever winning man's

Affection!

Not one?

No, no, not one

Not one?

No, no!

Yes, one!

Oh, Mabel!

'Tis Mabel

Yes, 'tis

Mabel

Oh, Sisters, deaf to pity's name for shame!

It's true that he has gone astray but pray

Is that a reason good and true why you

Should all be deaf to pity's name?

The question is had he not been a thing of beauty

Would she be swayed by quite as keen a sense of duty?

For shame

For shame

Poor wandering one

Though thou hast surely strayed

Take heart of grace, thy steps retrace

Poor wandering one

Poor wandering one

If such poor love as mine

Can help thee find true peace of mind

Why, take it

It is thine

Take heart, no danger low'rs

Take any heart but ours

Take heart, fair days will shine

Take any heart, take mine

Thank you.

Take heart, no danger low'rs

Take any heart but ours

Take heart, fair days will shine

Take any heart, take mine

Poor wandering one

Though thou hast surely strayed

Take heart of grace, thy steps retrace

Poor wandering one

Poor wandering one

Poor wandering one

Take heart

Take any heart but ours

Take heart

Take heart

Take mine

Take heart, no danger low'rs

Take any heart but ours

Take heart

Take any heart but ours

Take

Heart!

In. Out. Stop dinghy.

Maidens!

Maidens!

Quietly, men, down.

Men!

What?

Quiet!

Come on. Stay down.

First-rate opportunity. Now, to the port.

You to the starboard. No. I mean, the starboard. You to the port.

Stay, we must not lose our senses

Men who stick at no offences

Will anon be here

Piracy their dreadful trade is

Pray you get you, hence, young ladies

While the coast is clear

No, we must not lose our senses

If they stick at no offences

We should not be here

Piracy their dreadful trade is

Nice companions for young ladies

Let us...

Each man to a woman.

Man your women.

Too late

Hello. Mmm.

Here's a first-rate opportunity

To get married with impunity

And indulge in the felicity of unbounded domesticity

You shall quickly be parsonified

Conjugally matrimonified

By a doctor of divinity who is located in this vicinity

We have missed our opportunity

Of escaping with impunity

So farewell to the felicity of our maiden domesticity

We shall quickly be parsonified

Conjugally matrimonified

By a doctor of divinity who is located in this vicinity

By a doctor of divinity, who resides in this vicinity

By a doctor, a doctor, a doctor of divinity

Of divinity

Away!

Hold it, you.

Hold, monsters

Ere your pirate caravanserai

Proceed against our will to wed us all

Just bear in mind that we are wards in Chancery

And father is a Major-General

We'd better pause, or danger may befall

Their father is a Major-General

Yes, yes, he is a Major-General

Yes, yes, I am a Major-General

For he is a Major-General

He is! Hurrah for the Major-General

And it is, it is a glorious thing

To be a Major-General

It is! Hurrah for the Major-General

Hurrah for the Major-General

It's the same as the Pirate King tune!

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical

From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical

I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical

About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news

Lot o' news.

Got it!

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

He is the very model of a modern Major-General

In fact, when I know what is meant

By "mamelon" and "ravelin"

When I can tell at sight

A Mauser rifle from a javelin

When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at

And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery

When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery

In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy

Strategy?

Oh, my word. That's a hard one, isn't it?

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Cup of tea. Allergy.

Got it!

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury

Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Encore! Encore!

Can you do it one more time? Certainly.

And can you do it really fast?

Watch this!

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"

When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin

When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at

And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery

When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery

In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy

You'll say a better Major-General has never round a horse

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury

Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

I am the very model of a modern Major-General!

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

He is the very model of a modern Major-General

Enough! He might sing another encore.

Well, now that I've introduced myself.

I should like to have some idea of what's going on?

Permit me, I can explain in two words.

We propose to marry your daughters.

Against our wills, Papa. Against our wills.

Oh, you mustn't do that!

Ooh! May I ask. This is a picturesque uniform. I'm not familiar with it.

What are you?

We are all single gentlemen.

I gather that.

Anything else?

No, nothing else.

Don't believe him, Papa. They're all pirates.

The famous Pirates of Penzance.

Yes, infamous.

The Pirates of Penzance! Yes, I've often heard of them.

All except for this gentleman,

who was a pirate once, but is out of his indentures today

and means to lead a blameless life evermore.

Now wait a bit. I said you wait a bit!

I object to pirates as sons-in-law.

We object to major-generals as fathers-in-law.

But we waive that point.

Oh!

We do not press it.

We look over it.

I have an idea.

And do you mean to say...

Do you mean to say you would rob me of these,

the sole remaining props of my old age?

And leave me to go through the remainder of my life

unfriended, unprotected and alone?

Well, yes, that's the idea.

To them, lads.

One moment. One moment.

Have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?

Oh, dash it!

Here we are again!

I ask you have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?

Often!

Yes, orphan. Have you ever known what it is to be one?

I say, often.

Often, often, often.

To the ship. Hang on a minute.

I tell you, hang on a minute.

Now, listen, I don't think we quite understand one another.

I ask you have you ever known what it is to be an orphan,

and you say "orphan. "

Now as I understand you, you are merely repeating the word "orphan"

to show that you understand me. Hmm.

I didn't repeat the word "orphan. "

Pardon me, you did indeed.

I only repeated it once.

True, but you repeated it!

But not often!

Ooh! Ooh!

I think I can see where we are getting confused.

Now, when you say "orphan,"

did you mean "orphan," a person that has lost his parents

or "often," "frequently"?

Oh!

I beg your pardon. I see what you mean.

Of course, you do, yes.

Frequently.

You said "often" frequently?

No, only once.

Exactly. You said "often," frequently, only once.

Seize that man!

Oh, men of dark and dismal fate

Forgo your cruel employ

Have pity on my lonely state

I am an orphan boy

An orphan boy?

An orphan boy

How sad

An orphan boy

These children whom you see

Are all that I can call me own

Poor fellow

Take them away from me

And I shall be indeed alone

Poor fellow

See, at our feet they kneel

Our hearts we cannot steel

Against the sad, sad tale

Of the lonely

Orphan boy

I'm telling a terrible story but it doesn't diminish my glory

For they would have taken my daughters over the billowy waters

If I hadn't, in elegant diction

Indulged in an innocent fiction

Which is not in the same category as telling a regular terrible story

He's telling a terrible story

Which will tend to diminish his glory

Though they would have taken his daughters

Over the billowy waters

It is easy, in elegant diction

To call it an innocent fiction

But it comes in the same category

As telling a regular terrible story

It's easy, in elegant diction

To call it an innocent fiction

But it comes in the same category

As telling a regular story

Although our dark career

Sometimes involves the crime of stealing

We rather think that we're

Not altogether void of feeling

Although we live by strife

We're always sorry to begin it

For what, we ask

Is life

Without a touch

Of poetry in it

Hail, poetry

Thou heaven-born maid

Thou gildest even

The pirate's trade

Hail, flowing

Fount of sentiment

All hail

All hail

Divine

Emollient!

You may go, for you're at liberty

Our pirate rules protect you

And honorary members of our band

We do elect you

Thank you. Hurray!

For he is an orphan boy

He is! Hurrah for the orphan boy

And it sometimes is a useful thing to be an orphan boy

It is! Hurrah for the orphan boy

Hurrah for the orphan boy

Oh, happy day, with joyous glee

They will away and married be

Oh, happy day, with joyous glee

They will away and married be

Should it befall auspiciously

Our Sisters all will bridesmaids be

Should it befall auspiciously

Our Sisters all will bridesmaids be

Oh, happy day, with joyous glee

They will away and married be

Should it befall auspiciously

Our Sisters all will bridesmaids be

Should it befall auspiciously

Our Sisters all will bridesmaids be

Papa?

Papa?

Papa?

Oh, dry the glistening tear

That dews that martial cheek

Thy loving children hear

In them thy comfort seek

With sympathetic care

Their arms around thee creep

For oh, they cannot bear

To see

Their father weep

Oh, Frederic,

cannot you, in the calm excellence of your wisdom,

reconcile it with your conscience

to say something that will ease my father's sorrow?

What?

Can't you cheer him up?

Oh, I would try, dear Mabel.

But why does he sit here night after night in this drafty old ruin?

Why do I sit here?

Oh, Frederic, Frederic!

In order to escape the pirates' clutches,

I described myself as an orphan,

and heaven help me, I am no orphan.

Well, be comforted, sir.

For had you not acted as you did,

these reckless men would most assuredly

have called in the nearest clergyman

and married your large family on the spot.

I thank you for your proffered solace, but it is unavailing.

I tell you, Frederic, such is the anguish and remorse I feel

at the abominable falsehood

by which I escaped these easily deluded pirates,

that I would go to their simple-minded chief this very night

and confess all.

Ah!

But did I not feel that the consequences

would be oh, oh, oh, no, oh, no, no, most disastrous,

most disastrous to myself.

At what hour does your expedition march against these scoundrels?

At 11:00.

And before midnight I hope to have atoned

for my involuntary association with the pestilent scourges

by sweeping them from the face of the Earth!

Oh.

And then, dear Mabel, you will be mine.

Are your devoted followers at hand?

They are. They only await my order.

Then, Frederic

Let your escort lion-hearted

Be summoned to receive a General's blessing

Ere they depart upon their dread adventure

Dear, sir, they come!

When the foeman bares his steel

Tarantara, tarantara

Oh, we uncomfortable feel

Tarantara

And we find the wisest thing

Tarantara, tarantara

Is to slap our chests and sing

Tarantara

For when threatened with emutes

Tarantara, tarantara

And your heart is in your boots

Tarantara

There is nothing brings it round

Like the trumpet's martial sound

Tarantara, tarantara

Tarantara, tarantara

Ra-ra-tarantara

Go, ye heroes, go to glory

Though ye die in combat gory

Ye shall live in song and story

Go to immortality

Go to death and go to slaughter

Die, and every Cornish daughter

With her tears your grave shall water

Go, ye heroes, go and die

Tho' to us it's evident

Tarantara, tarantara

These attentions are well meant

Tarantara

Such expressions don't appear

Tarantara, tarantara

Calculated men to cheer

Tarantara

Who are going to meet their fate

In a highly nervous state

Tarantara, tarantara, tarantara

Still to us it's evident

These attentions are well meant

Tarantara, tarantara, tarantara

Go and do your best endeavor

And before all links, we sever

We will say farewell forever

Go to glory and the grave!

Go to glory and the grave

For your foes are fierce and ruthless

False, unmerciful and truthless

Young and tender, old and toothless

All in vain their mercy crave

We observe too great a stress

On the risks that on us press

And of reference a lack

To our chance of coming back

Still perhaps it would be wise

Not to carp or criticize

For it's very evident

These attentions are well meant

Yes, perhaps it would be wise

Not to carp or criticize

For it's very evident

These attentions are well meant

Yes, it's very evident

Wait! Get back in line.

These attentions are well meant Get back! Back!

Evident, yes, well meant evident!

Ah, yes, well meant!

When the foeman bares his steel Go, ye heroes

Tarantara, tarantara Go to glory

Oh, we uncomfortable feel Though ye die

Tarantara In combat gory

And we find the wisest thing Ye shall

Tarantara, tarantara Live in song and story

Is to slap our chests and sing Go to

Tarantara Immortality

Go to death For when threatened with emutes

Tarantara, tarantara And go to slaughter

And your heart is in your boots Die, and every

Tarantara Cornish daughter

There is nothing brings it round With her tears

Like the trumpet's martial sound Your grave shall water

Like the trumpet's martial sound Go, ye heroes

Tarantara, tarantara Go and die

Tarantara, tarantara Go, ye heroes

Tarantara, tarantara Go to immortality

Tarantara, tarantara Go, ye heroes

Tarantara, tarantara Go to immortality

Ra-ra-ra-ra Go, ye heroes

Ra-ra-ra-ra-tarantara Go to

Ra-ra-tarantara Immortality

Away, away Yes, yes, we go

These pirates slay Tarantara

Then do not stay Tarantara

Then why this delay? All right, we go!

Yes, forward on the foe! Yes, forward!

Yes, forward on the foe! On the foe

They're still here!

We go! We go! They go! They go!

Yes, forward on the foe Yes, forward

Yes, forward on the foe On the foe

Mabel, they're still here!

We go! We go! At last they go!

We go! We go! At last they go! At last they go!

We go! We go! We go! We go! At last they really, really go!

Yes, but you don't go.

We go! We go! They go! They go!

Yes, forward on the foe Yes, forward

Damn it, they don't go.

We go! We go! At last they go!

We go! We go! At last they go! At last they go!

We go! We go! We go! At last they really, really

We go! We go! We go! Really, really, really

We go! We go! Really go!

Now for the pirates' lair!

Oh, joy unbounded!

Oh, sweet relief!

Oh, rapture unexampled!

At last I may atone in some slight measure

For the repeated acts of theft and pillage

Of which, at a sense of duty's stern dictation

I, circumstance's victim

Have been guilty

Young Frederic!

Who calls? Your late commander

And I, your little Ruth

Oh, mad intruders

How dare ye face me?

Know ye not, oh, rash ones

That I have doomed you to extermination?

Have mercy on us Have mercy on us

Get back! Back!

Hear us, ere you slaughter

I do not think I ought to listen to you

Yet, mercy should alloy our stern resentment

And so I will be merciful

Say on!

Quiet.

When you had left our pirate fold

We tried to raise our spirits faint

According to our custom old

With quips and quibbles quaint

But all in vain the quips we heard

We lay and sobbed upon the rocks

Oh.

Until to somebody occurred

A startling paradox

A paradox? A paradox!

A most ingenious paradox

We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks

But none to beat this paradox!

A paradox, a paradox

A most ingenious paradox

This paradox

Ooh, I love a good paradox.

The paradox

For some ridiculous reason

To which, however, I've no desire to be disloyal

No.

Some person in authority

Who?

I don't know who

Very likely the Astronomer Royal

Has decided that

Although for such a beastly month as February

Twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty

One year in every four

His days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty

Through some singular coincidence

I shouldn't be surprised

If it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy

You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement

Having been born in leap year

On the 29th of February

And so?

And so, by a simple arithmetical process

You'll easily discover

That though you've lived 21 years

Yet, if we go by birthdays

You're only five and a little bit over

Dear me! Let's see!

Yes, yes, with yours my figures do agree

Five and a quarter, oh, that's rich!

How quaint the ways of paradox

At common sense she gaily mocks

Though counting in the usual way

Years 21 I've been alive

Yet, reckoning by my natal day

Yet, reckoning by my natal day

One, two, three, four...

I am a little boy of five

He is a little boy of five

A paradox, a paradox

A most ingenious paradox

The paradox

A curious paradox

A most ingenious paradox!

Upon my word, this is most curious indeed.

Most absurdly whimsical.

Five-and-a-quarter, eh?

You wouldn't think it to look at me.

You'll be glad I'll be bound, that you spared us.

You never would have forgiven yourself

when you discovered you killed your two comrades.

My comrades?

I'm afraid you don't appreciate the delicacy of your position.

You were apprenticed to us.

Yes, until I reached my 21st year.

Ah! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

Until you reached your 21st...

Oh. Birthday.

And going by birthdays, you are as yet only five-and-a-quarter.

You don't mean to say you are going to hold me to this?

No, no. No, no. No, no, no, no.

We merely remind you of the fact,

and leave the rest to your sense of duty.

Your sense of duty.

Oh, I abhor your infamous calling.

I shudder at the thought that I've ever been mixed up with it!

But duty is before all!

And at any price

I will do my duty.

Oh, bravely spoken!

Come!

You're one of us once more.

Lead on, I follow.

Come. That's the ship.

My eyes are fully opened to my awful situation

I shall go at once to Mabel and make her an oration

I will tell her I am bound by duty and my moral senses

And I don't know what to do about the penny consequences

Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger

But a pirate must indulge a little pardonable swagger

And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter

But I've got to go tonight so it really doesn't matter!

So it really doesn't matter! So it really doesn't matter!

So it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!

Matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter

If this were not a little mad and generally silly

I should give you my advice upon the subject, willy-nilly

I should show you in a moment how to grapple with the question

And you'd really be astonished at the force of my suggestion

On the subject I shall write you a most valuable letter

Full of excellent suggestions when I feel a little better

But at present I'm afraid I am as mad as any hatter

So I'll sing this song for ruddy good it really doesn't matter

What we sing doesn't matter What we sing doesn't matter

What we sing doesn't matter

No, it really doesn't matter

What we sing doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter

Matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter

If I had been so lucky as to have a steady mother

Who could talk to me as we are talking now to one another

Who could give me good advice when she discovered I was erring

Which is just the very favor which on you I am conferring

My existence would have made a rather interesting idyll

And I might have lived and died a very decent indiwiddle

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter

Isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter!

If it is, it doesn't matter If it is, it doesn't matter

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter

Isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter!

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter

Isn't generally heard, and if it is, it doesn't matter!

Matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter

Matter, matter, matter!

Oh, horror!

What's the matter? What's the matter?

Ought I to tell you?

What?

Oh, no, I cannot.

Yet, as one of your band...

Speak out, I charge you by that sense of conscientiousness

to which we've never yet appealed in vain.

General Stanley... Yes.

The father of my Mabel. Yes, yes!

General Stanley escaped from you

on the plea that he was an orphan.

He did?

Oh. Oh, yes, he did.

I was there.

Well? Oh!

It breaks my heart to betray the honored father of the girl I adore.

Break it.

And yet, as your apprentice, I have no alternative.

None.

It is my duty then to tell you...

Yes, your duty.

...that General Stanley... Yes?

Well, General Stanley...

General Stanley is what?

Well, he is no...

He's no...

Well... What, what, what?

General Stanley is no

orphan!

When you say "orphan,"

you mean, "orphan," a person that has lost his parents

or "often," "frequently"?

A person that has lost his parents.

What? What?

And more than that...

No.

Oh. Oh.

He never was one!

Am I to understand

that in order to save

his contemptible life,

he dared to practice

on our credulous simplicity?

Our revenge

will be swift!

We will go and collect our band

and attack Tremorden Castle this very night.

But stay! Not a word!

He is doomed!

Away, away! My heart's on fire

I burn, this base deception to repay

This very night my vengeance dire

Shall glut itself in gore! Away, away!

Away, away! Ere I expire

I find my duty hard to do today

My heart is filled with anguish dire

It strikes me to the core! Away, away!

With falsehood foul he tricked us of our brides

Let vengeance howl the pirate so decides

Our nature stern he softened with his lies

And, in return, tonight the traitor dies

Yes, yes! Tonight the traitor dies!

Tonight he dies

Yes, or early tomorrow

His girls likewise?

They will welter in sorrow

The one soft spot

In their natures they cherish

And all who plot

To abuse it shall perish

Tonight he dies Yes, or early tomorrow

His girls likewise, they'll welter in sorrow

The one soft spot In their natures they cherish

And all who plot to abuse it shall perish

Away, away! Away!

Tonight the traitor dies!

Away, away! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight!

The traitor dies tonight!

Away!

Oh.

Stay, Frederic, stay!

Nay, Mabel, nay!

They have no claim

But duty's name

The thought my soul appalls No shadow of a shame

But when stern duty calls Will fall upon thy name

Stay, Frederic, stay!

I must obey

Ah, leave me not to pine

Alone and desolate

No fate seemed fair as mine

No happiness

So great

And nature, day by day

Has sung

In accents clear

This joyous roundelay

"He loves thee

"He is here

"Fa-la, la-la

"Fa-la, la-la

"He loves

"Thee

"He is here

"Fa-la, la-la

"Fa-la"

Ah, must I leave thee here

In endless night to dream

Where joy is dark and drear

And sorrow

All supreme

Where nature, day by day

Will sing

In altered tone

This weary roundelay

"He loves thee

"He is gone

"Fa-la, la-la

"Fa-la, la-la

"He loves thee

"He is gone

"Fa-la, la-la

"Fa-la"

In 1940 I of age shall be

I'll then return and claim you

I declare it!

It seems so long

Swear that till then you will be true to me

Yes, I'll be strong

By all the Stanleys dead and gone

I swear it!

Oh, here is love and here is truth

And here is food for joyous laughter

She will be faithful He will be faithful

To her sooth To his sooth

Till we are wed, and even after

Oh, here is love and here is truth

She will be faithful to her sooth

He will be faithful to his sooth

Till we are wed, and even after

Till we are wed

And even after

Yes, even after

Oh, here is love and here is truth

And here is food for joyous laughter

She will be faithful He will be faithful

To her sooth To his sooth

Till we are wed, and even after

She will be faithful to her sooth

Till we are wed, and even after And after

Even after

Oh, here is love and here is truth

Oh, here is love

Here's love

Farewell.

No, I am brave

Oh, family descent

How great thy charm, thy sway, how excellent

Come one and all, undaunted men in blue

A crisis, now, affairs are coming to

When the danger's near

Tarantara, tarantara

We manage to appear

Tarantara

As insensible to fear

As anybody here

Tarantara, tarantara

Ra-ra-tarantara

Sergeant, approach!

Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory

That is not a pleasant way of putting it

He will not so lead you

For he has allied himself once more

With his old associates

He has acted shamefully!

You speak falsely

You know nothing about it

He has acted nobly

He has acted nobly

Dearly as I loved him before

His heroic sacrifice to his sense of duty

Has endeared him to me tenfold

He has done his duty, I will do mine

Go ye and do yours

Right oh!

This is perplexing.

But no matter, our cause is clear.

We must do our best to capture these pirates alone.

It is most distressing to us to be the agents

Whereby our erring fellow-creatures

Are deprived of that liberty

Which is so dear to us all

But we should have thought of that

Before we joined the force

We should

Well, too late now!

When a felon's not engaged in his employment

His employment

Or maturing his felonious little plans

Little plans

His capacity for innocent enjoyment

'Cent enjoyment

Is just as great as any honest man's

Honest man's

Our feelings we with difficulty smother

'Culty smother

When Constabulary duty's to be done

To be done

Ah, take one consideration with another

With another

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Oh

When Constabulary duty's to be done

To be done

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

Hoo!

Quiet down there.

Good night.

A rollicking band of pirates we

Who, tired of tossing on the sea

Are trying their hand at a burglary

With weapons grim and gory

Hush, hush!

I hear them on the manor poaching

With stealthy steps the pirates are approaching

We are not coming for plate or gold

A story General Stanley told

We seek a penalty fifty-fold

For General Stanley's story

They seek a penalty Fifty-fold!

We seek a penalty Fifty-fold!

They seek a penalty fifty-fold

For General Stanley's story

Quiet!

They come in force

With stealthy stride

Silence! Down.

Our obvious course is now to hide

Tarantara, tarantara

Go on.

Quiet!

With cat-like tread

Upon our prey we steal

In silence dread

Our cautious way we feel

No sound at all

We never speak a word

A fly's foot-fall would be distinctly heard

Tarantara, tarantara

So stealthily the pirate creeps

While all the household soundly sleeps

Come, friends, who plough the sea

Truce to navigation

Take another station

Let's vary piracy

With a little burglary

Come, friends, who plough the sea

Truce to navigation

Take another station

Let's vary piracy

With a little burglary

Quiet!

Here's your crowbar

And your center bit

Your life preserver

You may want to hit

Your silent matches

Your dark lantern seize

Take your file

And your skeletonic keys

Tarantara

With catlike tread Tarantara

In silence dread

With cat-like tread

Upon our prey we steal

In silence dread

Our cautious way we feel

No sound at all

We never speak a word

A fly's foot-fall would be distinctly heard

Come, friends, who plough the sea

Truce to navigation

Take another station

Let's vary piracy

With a little burglary

With cat-like tread

Upon our prey we steal

In silence dread

Our cautious way

We feel!

Come, friends, who plough the sea

Truce to navigation

Take another station

Let's vary piracy

With a little burglary

With cat-like tread

Upon our prey we steal

In silence dread

Our cautious way

We

Feel!

Who's there?

Hush, hush! Hello?

Not a word

I see a light inside

The Major-General comes

So, quickly hide

Yes, yes!

The Major-General comes

Yes, yes!

The Major-General comes

Yes, yes!

The Major-General comes

Tormented with the anguish dread of falsehood unatoned

I lay upon my sleepless bed

And tossed and turned and groaned

The man who finds his conscience ache

No peace at all enjoys

And as I lay in bed awake

I thought I heard a noise

He thought he heard a noise

Ha, ha!

No, all is still

In dale, on hill

My mind is set at ease

So still the scene

It must have been

The sighing of the breeze

Sighing softly to the river

Comes the loving breeze

Setting nature all a-quiver

Rustling through the trees

Through the trees

And the brook in rippling measure

Laughs for very love

While the poplars in their pleasure

Wave their arms above

Yes, the trees for very love

Wave their leafy arms above

River, river little river

May thy loving prosper ever

Heaven speed thee, poplar tree

May thy wooing happy be

Heaven speed thee, poplar tree

May thy wooing

Happy be

Yet, the breeze is but a rover

When he wings away

Brook and poplar mourn a lover

Sighing, "Well-a-day!"

Well-a-day

Ah, the doing and undoing

That the rogue could tell

When the breeze is out a-wooing

Who can woo so well?

Shocking tales the rogue could tell

Nobody can woo so well

Pretty brook, thy dream is over

For thy love is but a rover

Sad the lot of poplar trees

Courted by a fickle breeze

Sad the lot of poplar trees

Courted by a

Fickle

Breeze

Papa! Papa! Where are you?

Now what is this and what is that?

And why does Father leave his rest

At such a time of night as this, so very incompletely dressed?

Dear Father is, and always was, the most methodical of men

It's his invariable rule to go to bed at half-past ten

What strange occurrence can it be that calls dear Father from his rest

At such a time of night as this, so very incompletely dressed?

So very incompletely dressed

At such a time of night!

Forward, my men,

and seize that General there!

His life is over!

The pirates! The pirates! Oh, despair!

Yes, we're the pirates, so despair!

Frederic here! Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!

Summon your men and effect their capture!

Frederic, save us!

Beautiful Mabel, I would if I could, but I am not able

He's telling the truth, he is not able

With base deceit

You worked upon our feelings

Revenge is sweet

And flavors all our dealings

With courage rare

And resolution manly

For death prepare

Unhappy General Stanley

Is he to die

No! Unshriven, unannealed?

Oh, spare him!

Will no one in his cause a weapon wield

Oh, spare him!

Yes, we are here, though hitherto concealed

Oh, rapture!

What do we do?

So to Constabulary, pirates yield

Oh, rapture!

To them, lads!

Charge! Ow!

Kill! Kill! Come on, boy, sic 'em, sic 'em!

Come on, boy, bite them! Bite those pirates!

Sit!

Away!

Sailors always welcome ladies

Most politely

Now give three cheers

I'll lead the way

Hurrah! Hurrah!

Hurray!

Kill them!

To gain a brief advantage you've contrived

But your proud triumph will not be long-lived

Don't say you are orphans, for we know that game

On your allegiance we've a stronger claim

We charge, you yield

We charge, you yield

In Queen

Victoria's name

You do?

We do!

We charge, you yield

In Queen

Victoria's name

We yield at once

With humbled mien

Because with all our faults

We love

Our Queen

Yes, yes

With all their faults

They love their Queen

Yes, yes

With all their faults With all our faults

They love their Queen We love our Queen

Away with them

And place them at the bar

One moment!

Let me tell you who they are

They are no members of the common throng

They are all noblemen

Who have gone wrong

They are all noblemen

Who have gone wrong

No Englishman unmoved that statement hears

Because, with all our faults

We love

Our House of Peers

I pray you, pardon me, ex-Pirate King

Peers will be peers, and youth will have its fling

Resume your ranks and legislative duties

And take my daughters

All of whom are beauties

At length we are provided with unusual facility

To change piratic crime for dignified respectability

Combined I needn't say with the unparalleled felicity

Of what we have been longing for

Unbounded domesticity

Tomorrow morning early we will quickly be parsonified

Hymeneally coupled, conjugally matrimonified

And this shall be accomplished by the doctor of divinity

Who happily resides in the immediate vicinity

Who happily resides in the immediate vicinity

My military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury

Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

But still in getting off my daughters

Eight or nine or ten in all

I've shown myself the model of

A modern Major-General

But still in getting off his daughters

Eight or nine or ten in all

He's shown himself the model of a modern Major-General

Poor wandering ones

Though ye have surely strayed

Take heart of grace, your steps retrace

Poor wandering ones

Poor wandering ones

If such poor love as ours

Can help you find

True peace of mind

Why, take it

It is yours

Poor wandering ones

Poor wandering ones

Take heart

Take heart

Take, take heart

Take heart

Take heart

Take heart

Take heart

Take heart, fair days will shine

Take any heart

Take heart

Take heart!

Take

Heart!