All language subtitles for The.Pirates.Of.Penzance.(1983).[BluRay].[1080p].[YTS.AM]-English

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!