The Mikado Page #2

# And all is right, too-loorallay #

# And you are right

And we are right #

# And all is right,

too-loora-loorallay #

# And I am right

And you are right #

# And all #

# Is right ##

Ko-Ko, the cheap tailor,

Lord High Executioner of Titipu.

Why, that's the highest rank

a citizen can attain.

It is.

That is Pooh-Bah.

Our logical Mikado, seeing no moral

difference between the dignified judge...

who condemns a criminal to die...

and the industrious mechanic

who carries out the sentence...

has rolled the two

offices into one...

and every judge is now

his own executioner.

But how good of you,

a nobleman of the highest rank...

to condescend to tell all this

to me, a mere strolling minstrel.

Don't mention it.

I am, in point of fact...

a particularly haughty

and exclusive person...

of preadamite ancestral descent.

You will understand this when I tell

you that I can trace my ancestry back...

to a protoplasmal primordial

atomic globule.

Consequently, my family pride

is something inconceivable.

I can't help it.

I was born sneering.

But I struggle hard

to overcome this defect.

I mortify my pride continually.

When all the great officers

of state resigned in a body...

because they were too proud

to serve under an ex-tailor...

did I not unhesitatingly accept

all their posts at once?

And the salaries attached to them?

- Oh.

- You did.

A Pooh-Bah paid for his services!

I a salaried minion!

But I do it.

It revolts me, but I do it.

And it does you credit.

But I don't stop at that.

I also retail state secrets

at a very low figure.

- For instance -

- Any information about Yum-Yum -

Would come under the head

of a state secret.

Another insult,

and, I think, a light one.

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# 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 a county jail #

# By a set of curious chances #

# Liberated then on bail #

# On my 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 suchlike circumstances #

# So adventurous a tale #

# Which may rank with most romances #

- # Taken from a county jail #

- # Taken from a county jail #

- # By a set of curious chances #

- # Liberated then on bail #

# Surely never had a male

So adventurous a tale #

# Defer, defer #

# To the Lord High Executioner #

# Defer, defer #

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