The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: I'm telling a terrible story (Major-General, Others except Ruth)

The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: I'm telling a terrible story (Major-General, Others except Ruth) Lyrics

Song The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: I'm telling a terrible story (Major-General, Others except Ruth)
Artist Sir Malcolm Sargent
Album Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance
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[00:01.07] GENERAL (aside)
[00:02.40] I'm telling a terrible story?
[00:04.13] But it doesn't diminish my glory;?
[00:06.01] For they would have?
[00:07.55] taken my daughters?
[00:07.92] Over the billowy waters,
[00:09.65] If I hadn't, in elegant diction,
[00:11.72] Indulged in an innocent fiction,
[00:13.59] Which is not in the same category
[00:15.37] As a regular terrible story.
[00:16.57] GIRLS (aside) PIRATES (asid
[00:17.39] He is telling a terrible If he's telling a
[00:18.30] story, terrible story
[00:19.29] Which will tend to He shall die by a death
[00:20.20] diminish hislory; that is gory
[00:21.21] Though they would have? Yes, one of the
[00:22.09] taken hisaughters cruellest slaughters
[00:22.92] Over the billowy waters, That ever were known in these waters;
[00:24.80] It is easy, in elegant It is easy, in elegant
[00:25.75] diction. diction,
[00:26.74] To call it an innocent To call it an innocent
[00:27.95] ?fiction,? fiction
[00:28.50] But it comes in the same But it comes in the same
[00:29.49] As telling a regular As telling a regular
[00:30.36] terrible story.? terrible story.
[00:32.13]
[00:32.45] It is easy, in elegant It is easy, in elegant
[00:32.91] diction. diction,
[00:33.93] To call it an innocent To call it an innocent
[00:34.91] fiction fiction
[00:35.94] But it comes in the same But it comes in the same
[00:37.19] As telling a regular As telling a regular
[00:38.00] terrible story.? terrible story.
[00:40.35]
[00:41.43] KING
[00:45.80] Although our dark career
[00:50.44] Sometimes involves the crime of stealing,
[00:57.62] We rather think that we're
[01:01.92] Not altogether void of feeling.
[01:08.97] Although we live by strife,
[01:13.80] We're always sorry to begin it,
[01:20.70] For what, we ask, is life
[01:26.32] Without a touch of Poetry in it?
[01:33.32]
[01:34.76] ALL
[01:35.05] Hail, Poetry, thou heav'n-born maid!
[01:46.24] Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade.
[01:58.90] Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
[02:09.04] All hail, all hail, divine emollient!
[02:23.27] (all rise)
[02:25.02]
[02:26.38] KING
[02:26.73] You may go, for you're at liberty,
[02:30.99] our pirate rules protect you,
[02:35.02] And honorary members of our band we do elect you!
[02:45.29]
[02:45.55] SAMUEL
[02:45.79] For he is an orphan boy!
[02:47.00]
[02:47.24] CHORUS
[02:47.43] He is!?Hurrah for the orphan boy!
[02:49.37]
[02:49.63] GENERAL
[02:49.84] And it sometimes is a useful thing
[02:52.47] To be an orphan boy.
[02:53.90]
[02:54.12] CHORUS
[02:54.54] It is!?Hurrah for the orphan boy!
[02:56.75] Hurrah for the orphan boy!
[02:59.30]
[02:59.68] ENSEMBLE
[03:00.06] Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
[03:02.02] They will away and married be!
[03:03.30]
[03:04.31] Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
[03:06.80] They will away and married be!
[03:08.77]
[03:09.28] Should it befall auspiciously,
[03:11.63] Her (Our) sisters all will bridesmaids be!
[03:13.54]
[03:14.66] Should it befall auspiciously,
[03:16.51] Her (Our) sisters all will bridesmaids be!
[03:18.38]
[03:19.21] Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
[03:21.57] They will away and married be!
[03:24.08] Should it befall auspiciously,
[03:26.58] Her (Our) sisters all will bridesmaids be!
[03:29.11] Should it befall auspiciously,
[03:31.60] Her (Our) sisters all will bridesmaids be!
[03:36.67]
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