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Sullivan: The Gondoliers or The King of Barataria - Overture
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Good morrow, pretty maids
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For the merriest fellows are we
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See, see at last they come to make their choice
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We're called gondolieri, but that's a vagary
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And now to choose our brides!
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Thank you gallant gondolieri
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From the sunny Spanish shore
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In enterprise of martial kind
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O rapture, when alone together
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There was a time, a time for ever gone
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But, bless my heart, consider my position!
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Try we life-long we can never
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When a merry maiden marries
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Kind sir, you cannot have the heart
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Do not give way to this uncalled-for grief
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Sullivan: Then one of us will be a Queen
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Now pray, what us the cause of this
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Replying, we sing as one individual
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For ev'ryone who feels inclined
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Come let's away - our island crown awaits me
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Now, Marco dear, my wishes hear
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Then away they go to an island fair
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Of happiness the very pith
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Rising early in the morning
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Take a pair of sparkling eyes
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Here we are, at the risk of our lives
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After sailing to this land
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Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero
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There lived a king, as I've been told
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In a contemplative fashion
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With ducal pomp and ducal pride
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On the day when I was wedded
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To help unhappy commoners
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Small titles and orders for mayors and recorders
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I am a courtier grave and serious
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Here is a case unprecedented!
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Now let the loyal lieges gather round
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Speak woman speak, we're all attention!
Jennifer Toye, Joyce Wright, Mary Sansom, Gillian Knight, Jeanette Roach, Thomas Round, Jeffrey Skitch, Alan Styler, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, The New Symphony Orchestra Of London & Isidore Godfrey
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The royal prince was by the king entrusted
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