Lyrics?


I just wondered if anyone knows where I can find the lyrics to this version, in particular the 'My Eyes are Fully Open/Matter Patter' song? I tried looking everyone with no success so any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

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Hi, hi, hi there! At last we meet.

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My eyes are fully opened
to my awful situation
I shall go at once to mabel
and make her an oration
I will tell her I am bound
by duty and my moral senses
and I don't know what to do
about the pending consequences
now I do not want to perish
by the sword or by the dagger
but a pirate must indulge
a little pardonable swagger
and a word or two
of compliment
my vanity would flatter
but I've got to go tonight
and so it really
doesn't matter
[ Pirate king and ruth ]
So it really doesn't matter
matter, matter, matter
so it really
doesn't matter
so it really doesn't matter
so it really doesn't matter
matter, matter, matter
matter, matter, matter
if this were not a little
mad and generally silly
I should give you my advice
upon the subject
willy-nilly
I should show you in a moment
how to grapple
with the question
and you'd really be astonished
at the force of my suggestion
on the subject I shall write
you a most valuable letter
full of excellent suggestions
when I feel a little better
but at present I'm afraid
I am as mad as any hatter
so I'll sing this song
from rudigore
it really doesn't matter
what we sing
just doesn't matter
what we sing
just doesn't matter
matter, matter, matter
what we sing
just doesn't matter
no, it really doesn't matter
matter, matter, matter
matter, matter, matter
if I had had a steady mother
who could talk to me as we are
talking now to one another
who could give me good advice
when she discovered
I was erring
my existence would have made
a rather interesting idyll
this particularly rapid
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
and if it is
it doesn't matter
if it is, it doesn't matter
if it is, it doesn't matter
matter, matter
this particularly rapid
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
this particularly rapid
unintelligible patter
isn't generally heard
and if it is
it doesn't matter
matter, matter, matter

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Thanks!

#12

Hi, hi, hi there! At last we meet.

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Oh better to far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly
Than play a sanctimonious part
with pirate head and a pirate heart
Away to the cheating world go you
where pirates all are well to do
but I'll be true to song I sing
and live and die a pirate king
(chorus)
for I am the pirate king
and it is it is a glorious thing
to be a pirate king
I am the pirate king (you are! hurrah for the pirate king)
and it is it is a glorious thing
to be a pirate king
it is! hurrah for the pirate king
hurrah for the pirate king

When I sally forth to seek my prey
I help my self in a royal way
I sink a few more ships its true
than a well bred monarch ought to do
but many a king on a first class throne
if he wants to call his crown his own
must manage somehow to get through
more dirty work than ever I do

Chorus

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For lyrics try this website - comprehensive and may be worth a look.

http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/index.html

J

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^ The best site I've found, complete with all lyrics and MIDI to sing along!

http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/index.html

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The patter song is lifted - pirated, you might say - from 'Ruddigore', as the lyrics state. You can buy a big fat paperback Complete G&S from Amazon or Abebooks, then you'll have the lot. You'll have to work out the altered words for yourself, though. I don't think anything else in Pirates has been altered, though some of the dialogue might be cut a bit.
Nice to find plenty of people enjoying G&S.

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Could someone please post the lyrics to "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General?"

Formerly rose-lisa

My name's Andy

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?

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Here you are -

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus' uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

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Thanks. BTW, why did Gilbert diss "HMS Pinafore" in the lyrics?

Formerly rose-lisa

My name's Andy

Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men?

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To get a laugh, of course. 'Pinafore' was a smash hit when it was first produced and no doubt fans annoyed their friends by singing - or whistling - tunes from it.

Have you read "Three Men in a Boat"? There's a bit where Harris volunteers to sing a comic song at a party, and gets in a terrible muddle singing a mixture of the Judge's song from Trial by Jury and Sir Joseph Porter's song from HMS Pinafore. They both begin "When I was young..."

This is how middle-class Victorians entertained themselves. Every home had a piano and someone who could play it, probably not very well; families and friends gathered round the piano and sang. In fact we used to do this when I was a child, and though fairly ancient I'm not Victorian!

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double wow............ thats impressive. I love that song, especially when major general is trying to think of rhymes.

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When he's trying to think of rhymes ... I don't even know how he or the rest sang so fast .. It was impressive .. to say the least .

"A man that wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough".



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