The MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players

The Mikado Photos

By Sheldon Brown

M.I.T. Student Center, November, 1998

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The Overture

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A wand'ring minstrel, I...

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...a thing of shreds and patches...

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...of ballads, songs, and snatches...

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I've got a little list...

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In which of my capacities? As First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chamberlain, Attorney General, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Privy Purse, or Private Secretary?

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Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a school-girl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish glee,
Three little maids from school!

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It goes against the grain. They are not young ladies, they are young persons.

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But as I'm engaged to Ko-Ko,
To embrace you thus, con fuoco,
Would distinctly be no giuoco,
And for yam I should get toko--

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Life without Yum-Yum--why, it seems absurd!

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Oh, fool! to shun delights that never cloy!
Come back, oh, shallow fool! come back to joy!

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The state of your connubial views
Towards the person you accuse
Does not concern us!
For he's going to marry Yum-Yum--

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O ni! bikkuri shakkuri to!

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Braid the raven hair--
Weave the supple tress--
Deck the maiden fair
In her loveliness--

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I mean to rule the earth,
As he the sky--
We really know our worth,
The sun and I!

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My morals have been declared Particularly correct;

But they're nothing at all, compared With those of his daughter-in-law elect!

Bow--Bow-- To his daughter-in-law elect!

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My object all sublime, I will achieve in time,

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I wasn't there.

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Oh, bother the flowers that bloom in the spring!

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Mercy even for Pooh-Bah.

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Traitor, you have deceived me!

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For he's gone and married Yum-Yum--

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With laughing song
And merry dance,
With joyous shout and ringing cheer,
Inaugurate our new career!

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