Here's a how-de-do!
If I marry you,
When your time has come to perish,
Then the maiden whom you cherish
Must be slaughtered, too!
(in ecstasy).
24 The Mikado
Here's a how-de-do!
NANK. Here's a pretty mess!
In a month, or less,
I must die without a wedding!
Let the bitter tears I'm shedding
Witness my distress,
Here's a pretty mess!
KO. Here's a state of things!
To her life she clings!
Matrimonial devotion
Doesn't seem to suit her notion
Burial it brings!
Here's a state of things!
ENSEMBLE.
YUM-YUM and NANKI-POO. KO-KO.
With a passion that's intense With a passion that's intense
I worship and adore, You worship and adore,
But the laws of common sense But the laws of common sense
We oughtn't to ignore. You oughtn't to ignore.
If what he says is true, If what I say is true,
'Tis death to marry you! 'Tis death to marry you!
Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do! Here's a pretty how-de-do!
If I marry you,
When your time has come to perish,
Then the maiden whom you cherish
Must be slaughtered, too!
(in ecstasy).
24 The Mikado
Here's a how-de-do!
NANK. Here's a pretty mess!
In a month, or less,
I must die without a wedding!
Let the bitter tears I'm shedding
Witness my distress,
Here's a pretty mess!
KO. Here's a state of things!
To her life she clings!
Matrimonial devotion
Doesn't seem to suit her notion
Burial it brings!
Here's a state of things!
ENSEMBLE.
YUM-YUM and NANKI-POO. KO-KO.
With a passion that's intense With a passion that's intense
I worship and adore, You worship and adore,
But the laws of common sense But the laws of common sense
We oughtn't to ignore. You oughtn't to ignore.
If what he says is true, If what I say is true,
'Tis death to marry you! 'Tis death to marry you!
Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty state of things!
Here's a pretty how-de-do! Here's a pretty how-de-do!