HERE'S A HOW-DE-DO
Libretto by William S. Gilbert
Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Sung by Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Ko-Ko
- Yum-Yum:
- 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 slaughter'd too!
- Here's a how-de-do!
- Here's a how-de-do!
- Nanki-Poo:
- 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!
- Here's a pretty mess!
- Ko-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!
- Here's a state of things!
- all:
- With a passion that's intense
- I worship and adore,
- But the laws of common sense
- We oughtn't to ignore.
- If what he says is true,
- 'Tis death to marry you!
- Here's a pretty state of things!
- Here's a pretty how-de-do!
- Here's a pretty state of things!
- A pretty state of things!
- Yum-Yum:
- Here's a how-de-do!
- Nanki-Poo:
- Here's a how-de-do!
- Ko-Ko:
- Here's a how-de-do!
- all:
- For if what he says is true,
- I cannot, cannot marry you!
- Here's a pretty, pretty state of things!
- all:(spoken)
- Here's a pretty how-do-do!
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