Arthur Sullivan, John Reed, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash -
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
Behold the Lord High Executioner
Behold the Lord High Executioner!
A personage of noble rank and title
A dignified and potent officer
Whose functions are particularly vital!
Defer, defer
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble lord
To the noble lord
To the Lord High Executioner!
Taken from the country jail
By a set of curious chances
Liberated then on bail
On me own recognizances
Wafted by a favoring gale
As one sometimes is in trances
To a height that few can scale
Save by long and weary dances
Surely never had a male
Under such like circumstances
So adventurous a tale
Which may rank with most romances
Taken from the county jail (taken from a county jail)
By a set of curious chances (liberated then on bail)
Surely never had a male (surely never had a male)
So adventurous a tale
Defer, defer
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble lord
To the noble Lord
High Executioner!
Bow down, bow down
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble, noble Lord
High Executioner!
A personage of noble rank and title
A dignified and potent officer
Whose functions are particularly vital!
Defer, defer
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble lord
To the noble lord
To the Lord High Executioner!
Taken from the country jail
By a set of curious chances
Liberated then on bail
On me own recognizances
Wafted by a favoring gale
As one sometimes is in trances
To a height that few can scale
Save by long and weary dances
Surely never had a male
Under such like circumstances
So adventurous a tale
Which may rank with most romances
Taken from the county jail (taken from a county jail)
By a set of curious chances (liberated then on bail)
Surely never had a male (surely never had a male)
So adventurous a tale
Defer, defer
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble lord
To the noble Lord
High Executioner!
Bow down, bow down
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer
To the noble, noble Lord
High Executioner!
Credits
Writer(s): Kelsey Grammer, Arthur Sullivan
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Other Album Tracks
- The Mikado or The Town of Titipu: Overture
- 1. If you want to know who we are
- 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
- The Mikado: A wand'ring minstrel I
- 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
- 5. Young man, despair
- 6. And I have journey'd for a month
- Behold the Lord High Executioner
- The Mikado: As someday it may happen that a victim...
- 9. Comes a train of little ladies
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