[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!
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