Arthur Sullivan, Glyndebourne Chorus/Pro Arte Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent & Sir Malcolm Sargent -
Sullivan - The Mikado
The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: If you want to know who we are (Nobles)
If you want to know who we are,
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On many a vase and jar –
On many a screen and fan,
We figure in lively paint:
Our attitude's queer and quaint –
You're wrong if you think it ain't, oh!
If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.
Perhaps you suppose this throng
Can't keep it up all day long?
If that's your idea, you're wrong, oh!
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On many a vase and jar –
On many a screen and fan,
We figure in lively paint:
Our attitude's queer and quaint –
You're wrong if you think it ain't, oh!
If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.
Perhaps you suppose this throng
Can't keep it up all day long?
If that's your idea, you're wrong, oh!
Credits
Writer(s): Daryl Runswick, Arthur Sullivan, William Gilbert
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Other Album Tracks
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster): Overture
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: If you want to know who we are (Nobles)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Gentlemen, I pray you tell me (Nanki-Poo, A Noble)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: A wand'ring minstrel, I (Nanki-Poo, Nobles)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Our great Mikado, virtuous man (Pish-Tush, Nobles)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Young man, despair (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: And have I journey'd for a month (Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Behold the Lord High Executioner! (Nobles, Ko-Ko)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko, Nobles)
- The Mikado (or, The Town of Titipu) (1987 - Remaster), Act I: Comes a train of little ladies (Girls)
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