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Listen to Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado (Recorded live at the Arts Centre, Melbourne 24/25 May 2011) by Opera Australia
ALBUMGilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado (Recorded live at the Arts Centre, Melbourne 24/25 May 2011)Opera Australia

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AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Brian Castles-Onion
Brian Castles-Onion
Dirigent:in
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Gilbert & Sullivan
Gilbert & Sullivan
Komponist:in

Lyrics

If you want to know who we are
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On many a vase and jar —
On many a screen and fan
We figure in lively paint:
Our attitude's queer and quaint —
You're wrong if you think it ain't
Ooooh!
If you think we are worked by strings
Like a Japanese marionette
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette
Perhaps you suppose this throng
Can't keep it up all day long?
If that's your idea, you're wrong
Ooooh! Ooooh!
If that's your idea, you're wrong
If you want to know who we are
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On vase and jar
On screen and fan
On many, many, many, many
Many, many, many, many, a jar
Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh!
On vase and jar
On screen and fan
Gentlemen, I pray you tell me
Where a gentle maiden dwelleth
Named Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko?
In pity speak, oh speak I pray you!
Why, who are you who ask this question?
Come gather round me, and I'll tell you
Written by: Gilbert & Sullivan

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