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D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY When The Foeman Bares His Steel Lyrics (Enter POLICE, marching in single file. They form in line, facing audience.)
SOLOS AND CHORUS: When the foeman bares his steel
SERGEANT: When the foeman bares his steel,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We uncomfortable feel,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: And we find the wisest thing,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Is to slap our chests and sing,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: For when threatened with émeutes,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: And your heart is in your boots,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: There is nothing brings it round Like the trumpet's martial sound, Like the trumpet's martial sound
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.
MABEL: Go, ye heroes, go to glory, Though you die in combat gory, Ye shall live in song and story. Go to immortality! Go to death, and go to slaughter; Die, and every Cornish daughter With her tears your grave shall water. Go, ye heroes, go and die!
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go and die! Go, ye heroes, go and die!
SERGEANT: Though to us it's evident,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: These attentions are well meant,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Such expressions don't appear,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Calculated men to cheer
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Who are going to meet their fate In a highly nervous state.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Still to us it's evident These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
EDITH: Go and do your best endeavour, And before all links we sever, We will say farewell for-ever. Go to glory and the grave!
GIRLS: Go to glory and the grave! For your foes are fierce and ruthless, False, unnierciful, and truthless; Young and tender, old and toothless, All in vain their mercy crave.
SERGEANT: We observe too great a stress, On the risks that on us press, And of reference a lack To our chance of coming back. Still, perhaps it would be wise Not to carp or criticise, For it's very evident These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Yes, it's very evident These attentions are well meant, Evident, yes, well meant, evident Ah, yes, well meant!
POLICE: When the foeman bares his steel, etc.
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go to glory! etc.
GENERAL: Away, away!
POLICE: (without moving) Yes, yes, we go.
GENERAL: These pirates slay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then do not stay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then why this delay?
POLICE: All right, we go.
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe! Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe! Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: At last they go! At last they really go!
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