Arthur Sullivan - Sullivan: The Mikado or The Town of Titipu, Act 1: No. 1, Chorus, "If you want to know who we are" (Nobles) lyrics
Artist: Arthur Sullivan
album: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado
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!
Other albums by the artist
The Long Day Closes: Sullivan Part Songs
2020 · album
Sir Arthur Sullivan: Songs
2017 · album
The Mikado
2017 · album
The Yeomen of the Guard
2017 · album
Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore
2016 · album
