Song Name: | The Mikado: So Please You Sir | By: | Gilbert & Sullivan |
Posted By: | TolkeinFan | Difficulty: | Intermediate |
Key: | C | Genre: | Musical |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2012-12-11 14:58:44 | Modified: | 2013-08-02 23:10:35 |
Song: | THE MIKADO (or, The Town of Titipu)
Act 1: So Please You Sir (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, and Chorus) * * * * * * VERSE 1 * * * * * * YUM-YUM, PEEP-BO, and PITTI-SING: -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 9 -8 -8 So please you Sir, we much regret if we -7 -7 -6 -7 -6 6 Have failed in etiquette -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 9 -8 -8 -7 -7 -6 -7 -6 -8 Towards a man of rank so high -- we shall know better by and bye. YUM-YUM: -8 -8 7 7 -7 -7 -6 -6 But youth of course must have its fling, -6 7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -6 So pardon us -- so pardon us. PITTI-SING: 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -5 -4 -5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 And don't in girlhood's happy spring be hard on us, be hard on us, -4 5 -4 5 -4 5 -6 -4 If we're inclined to dance and sing! * * * * * * REFRAIN * * * * * * CHORUS: -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Tra la la la la la, la la -- YUM-YUM, PEEP-BO, and PITTI-SING: -8 9 8 7 -7 7 -8 8 7 -8 8 -8 7 -8 But youth of course, must have its fling so pardon us, -8 9 8 7 -7 7 -8 8 7 -8 8 -8 7 -8 And don't in girlhood's happy spring be hard on us. CHORUS -8 9 8 7 -7 7 -8 8 7 -8 8 -8 7 -8 But youth of course, must have its fling so pardon us -- CHORUS + YUM-YUM, PEEP-BO, and PITTI-SING: (TRILL) 6 6 -6 6 -6 6 6 6 8 Tra la- la- la- la- la la la la! 8 -8 8 -8 8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 Tra la- la- la- la- la la la la---- 6 6 -6 6 -6 6 6 6 8 Tra la- la- la- la- la la la la! (STACCATO) 8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 Tra la- la- la- la la- la- la- la -8 -8 -8 -8 9 (TWICE AS FAST) La-la-la-la x4 LAAA! * * * * * * VERSE 2 * * * * * * POOH-BAH: -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 I think you'd better recollect 6 -7 -6 -7 -6 -7 -6 6 You cannot show too much respect -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 Towards the highly-titled few; 6 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -7 -6 -4 But nobody does so why should you? PISH-TUSH: -8 -8 7 7 -7 -7 -6 -6 That youth of course should have its fling, -6 7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -6 Is hard on us, is hard on us; POOH-BAH: 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 To our prerogative we cling -- -4 -5 5 5 5 5 -4 -4 So pardon us, so pardon us -4 5 -4 5 -4 5 -6 -4 If we decline to dance and sing: (Tra la la la la etc.) * * * * * * (Play Refrain Once More) * * * * * * |