If You Want to Know Who We Are, by Gilbert & Sullivan

[the_gneech]

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 ettiquette
Perhaps you suppose this throng
can't keep it up all day long
if that's your idea you're wrong, Oh!

If that's your idea you're wrong...

If you want to know who we are
we are gentlemen of Japan
on vase and jar
on screen and fan
on many, many, many, many, many, many
many a jar, Oh!
On vase and jar
on screen and fan!

--Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado, or the Town of Titipu

When all else fails, Victorian light opera really satisfies. ;)

-The Gneech, callous and obdurate

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Probably so, but it was worth asking, just to see what sort of reply I'd get. ;)

--Rhan