REPERTORIO DE ARIAS Y CANCIONES DE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

De IOLANTHE
When Britain Really Ruled the Waves
When Britain really ruled the waves--
(In good Queen Bess's time)
The House of Peers made no pretence
To intellectual eminence,
Or scholarship sublime;
Yet Britain won her proudest bays
In good Queen Bess's glorious days!
Yes, Britain won …

CHORUS: Yes, Britain won …

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,

As every child can tell,
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well:
Yet Britain set the world ablaze
In good King George's glorious days!
Yes, Britain set …

CHORUS: Yes, Britain set …

And while the House of Peers withholds

Its legislative hand,
And noble statesmen do not itch
To interfere with matters which
They do not understand,
As bright will shine Great Britain's rays
As in King George's glorious days!
As bright …

CHORUS: As bright …
"Whe all night long a chap remains"

When all night long a chap remains

On sentry-go, to chase monotony
He exercises of his brains,
That is, assuming that he's got any.
Though never nurtured in the lap
Of luxury, yet I admonish you,
I am an intellectual chap,
And think of things that would astonish you.
I often think it's comical – Fal, lal, la!
How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal
That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a little Conservative!
Fal, lal, la!

De “THE GONDOLIERS”

Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes

Take a pair of sparkling eyes,

Hidden, ever and anon,
In a merciful eclipse--
Do not heed their mild surprise--
Having passed the Rubicon,
Take a pair of rosy lips;
Take a figure trimly planned,
Such as admiration whets
(Be particular in this);
Take a tender little hand,
Fringed with dainty fingerettes,
Press it, press it in parenthesis
Ah! Take all these, you lucky man--
Take and keep them, if you can, if you can!
Take all these, you lucky man--
Take and keep them, if you can, if you can!
Take a pretty little cot--
Quite a miniature affair--
Hung about with trellised vine,
Furnish it upon the spot
With the treasures rich and rare
I've endeavoured to define.
Live to love and love to live--
You will ripen at your ease,
Growing on the sunny side--
Fate has nothing more to give.
You're a dainty man to please
If you're are not satisfied, not satisfied.
Ah! Take my counsel, happy man;
Act upon it, if you can, if you can!
Take my counsel, happy man;
Act upon it, if you can, if you can!

Take my counsel, happy man!

Act upon it, if you can, if you can, if you can,
Act upon it, if you can, happy man, if you can!

ONCE MORE GONDOLIERI

Dance a cachuca, fandango, bolero,

Xeres we'll drink, Manzanilla, Montero;
Wine when it runs in abundance
enhances the reckless delight
of that wildest of dances!
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter;
And the clitter, clitter, clatter; ...
We'll dance!
Old Xeres we'll drink, Manzanilla, Montero,
For wine, when it runs in abundance,
enhances the reckless delight
of that wildest of dances,
That wildest of dances,
The reckless delight!
Once more, gondolieri,
Both skilful and wary,
Free from this quandary,
Contented are we
From Royalty flying,
Our gondolas plying,
And merrily crying our "preme", "stali!"
So goodbye, cachuca, fandango, bolero,
We'll dance a farewell to that measure;
Old Xeres, adieu, Manzanilla, Montero,
We leave you with feelings of pleasure!
Once more, gondolieri,
Both skilful and wary,
Free from this quandary,
contented are we.
Once more, gondolieri, gondolieri,
contented, contented are we!
So goodbye, cachuca, fandango, bolero,
We'll dance a farewell to that measure;
Old Xeres, adieu, Manzanilla, Montero,
We leave you with feelings of pleasure,
with feelings of pleasure!

DE “PIRATES OF PENZANCE

I am the very model of a modern major general

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
Wth many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I am very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculus
in short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern major general
All: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
he is 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 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.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
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's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is 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.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
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.
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.

DE “EL MIKADO”

Here's a how-de-do!

Here's a how-de-do!
If I marry you
When your time has come to perish
Then the maiden whom you cherish
Must be slaughtered, too!
Here's a how-de-do!
Here's a how-de-do!

[NANKI-POO]
Here's a pretty mess!
In a month, or less
I must die without a wedding!
Let the bitter tears I'm shedding
Witness my distress
Here's a pretty mess!
Here's a pretty mess!

[KO-KO]
Here's a state of things
To her life she clings!
Matrimonial devotion
Doesn't seem to suit her notion--
Burial it brings!
Here's a state of things!
Here's a state of things!

[YUM-YUM & NANKI-POO]

With a passion that's intense
I worship and adore
But the laws of common sense
We oughtn't to ignore
If what he says is true
'Tis death to marry you!
Here's a pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do!
Here's a pretty state of things!
A pretty state of things!

[KO-KO]
With a passion that's intense
You worship and adore
But the laws of common sense
You oughtn't to ignore
If what I say is true
'Tis death to marry you!
Here's a pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do!
Here's a pretty state of things!
A pretty state of things!

[YUM-YUM]
Here's a how-de-do!

[NANKI-POO]
Here's a how-de-do!

[KO-KO]
Here's a how-de-do!

[YUM-YUM & NANKI-POO]

For if what he says is true
I cannot, cannot marry you
Here's a pretty, pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do!

[KO-KO]
For if what he says is true
He cannot, cannot marry you
Here's a pretty, pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do!