Тексты песен «D'oyly Carte Opera Company»

CHORUS AND SOLO: A rollicking band of pirates we (Chorus of Pirates without, in the distance) PIRATES: A rollicking band of pirates we, Who, tired of tossing on the sea, Are trying their hand at a burglaree, With...

TRIO: Away, away! my heart's on fire 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...

CHORUS AND SOLOS: Climbing over rocky mountain GIRLS: Climbing over rocky mountain, Skipping rivulet and fountain, Passing where the willows quiver, Passing where the willows quiver By the ever-rolling river,...

ALL. He is an Englishman! BOAT. He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! ALL. That he is an Englishman! BOAT. For he might have been a Roosian,...

RECITATIVE AND CHORUS: Hold, monsters! MABEL: (coming forward) 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...

FINALE OF ACT I: Oh, men of dark and dismal fate GENERAL: Oh, men of dark and dismal fate, Forgo your cruel employ, Have pity on my lonely state, I am an orphan boy! KING/SAMUEL: An orphan boy? GENERAL: An orphan...

Captain remains and ascends the poop-deck. BARCAROLLE. (invisible) SIR JOSEPH'S FEMALE RELATIVES Over the bright blue sea Comes Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., Wherever he may go Bang-bang the loud nine-pounders go! Shout...

BALLAD AND FINALE OF ACT II: Sighing softly to the river GENERAL: Sighing softly to the river Comes the loving breeze, Setting nature all a-quiver, Rustling through the trees. MEN: Through the trees. GENERAL: And...

RECITATIVE AND CHORUS: Stay, we must not lose our senses FREDERIC: 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...

When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plan His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man Our feelings we with difficulty smother When constabulary duties...

(Enter POLICE, marching in single file. They form in line, facing audience.) SOLOS AND CHORUS: When the foeman bares his steel SERGEANT: When the foeman bares his steel, POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! SERGEANT:...