Gilbert & Sullivan I Am So Proud
[POOH-BAH]
I am so proud
If I allowed
My family pride
To be my guide
I'd volunteer
To quit this sphere
Instead of you
In a minute or two
But family pride
Must be denied
And set aside
And mortified
And mortified
[KO-KO]
My brain it teams
With endless schemes
Both good and new
For Titipu
For Titipu;
But if I flit
The benefit
That I'd diffuse
The town would lose!
Now every man
To aid his clan
Should plot and plan
As best he can
[PISH-TUSH]
I heard one day
A gentleman say
That criminals who
Are cut in two
Can hardly feel
The fatal steel
And so are slain
Are slain without much pain
If this is true
It's jolly for you;
Your courage screw
To bid us adieu
[POOH-BAH]
I am so proud
If I allowed
My family pride
To be my guide
I'd volunteer
To quit this sphere
Instead of you
In a minute or two
[KO-KO]
My brain it teams
With endless schemes
Both good and new
For Titipu, For Titipu; But if I flit
The benefit That I'd diffuse
The town would lose!
Now every man To aid his clan
Should plot and plan, As best he can.
[PISH-TUSH]
I heard one day
A Gentleman say, That criminals who
Are cut in two can hardly feel
The fatal steel, And so are slain
Are slain Without much pain
If this is True, It's jolly for you;
Your courage screw
To bid us adieu.
[KO-KO]
And so
Although
I'm ready to go
Yet recollect
'Twere disrespect
Did I neglect
To thus effect
This aim direct
So I object —
[POOH-BAH]
And so
Although
I wish to go
And greatly pine
To brightly shine
And take the line
Of a hero fine
With grief condign
I must decline
[PISH-TUSH]
And go
And show
Both friend and foe
How much you dare
I'm quite aware
It's your affair
Yet I declare
I'd take your share
But I don't much care
[POOH-BAH]
I must decline
I must decline
I must decline
I must decline
I must decline
I must decline
[KO-KO]
So I object
So I object
So I object
So I object
So I object
So I object
[PISH-TUSH]
I'd take your share
But I don't much care
I'd take your share
But I don't much care
I'd take your share
But I don't much care, much care
I don't much care
I don't much care
[ALL]
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
