The Mikado: So Please You Sir

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) * * * * * *