Arthur Sullivan, Valerie Masterson, Pauline Wales, Peggy Ann Jones, Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Royston Nash -
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
So please you, sir, we much regret
If we have failed in etiquette
Towards a man of rank so high
We shall know better by and by
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us, so pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us, be hard on us
If we're inclined to dance and sing
Tra la la la la la (la la la la la)
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la, tra la la la la la la la
I think you ought to recollect
You cannot show too much respect
Towards the highly titled few
But nobody does and why should you?
That youth at us must have its fling
Is hard on us, is hard on us
To our prerogative we cling
So pardon us, so pardon us
If we decline to dance and sing
Tra la la la la la, tra la la la la la
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la, tra la la la la la la la
If we have failed in etiquette
Towards a man of rank so high
We shall know better by and by
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us, so pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us, be hard on us
If we're inclined to dance and sing
Tra la la la la la (la la la la la)
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la, tra la la la la la la la
I think you ought to recollect
You cannot show too much respect
Towards the highly titled few
But nobody does and why should you?
That youth at us must have its fling
Is hard on us, is hard on us
To our prerogative we cling
So pardon us, so pardon us
If we decline to dance and sing
Tra la la la la la, tra la la la la la
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
And don't in girlhood's happy spring
Be hard on us
But youth, of course, must have its fling
So pardon us
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la
Tra la la la la la la la, tra la la la la la la la
Credits
Writer(s): Arthur Seymour Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert
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- 1. If you want to know who we are
- 2. Gentlemen, I pray you tell me maiden...
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- 4. Our great Mikado, virtuous man
- 5. Young man, despair
- 6. And I have journey'd for a month
- Behold the Lord High Executioner
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- 9. Comes a train of little ladies
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