Ear Worm/Theatre/Gilbert and Sullivan: Difference between revisions

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* "Olympus is now in a terrible muddle/The deputy deities all are at fault..." sticks in one's head even with the music lost.

 

* "For I am a judge/And a good judge too..."

 

* "Ring forth, ye bells/With clarion sound/Forget your knells/For joys abound..."

* "My name is John Wellington Wells/I'm a dealer of magic and spells..."

** "Alas, that lovers thus should meet/Oh, pity, pity me!"

 

* "I am the monarch of the sea/Ruler of the Queen's Na-vee/Whose praise all of Great Britain chants"/"And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts!"

* "When I was a lad I served a term/As office boy to an attorney's firm..."

* "For he is an Englishman!"

 

* "Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly/ Than play a sanctimonious part/ With a pirate head and a pirate heart..."

* "How beautifully blue the sky, the glass is rising very high..."

* "When the foeman bares his steel"

** "Tarantara, tarantara!"

* "[[With Catlike Tread|WITH CATLIKE TREAD!]] UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL!"

 

* "If you want a receipt [sic] for that popular mystery/Known to the world as the Heavy Dragoon..."

* "In a doleful train/Two and two we walk all day..."

* "So go to him and say to him with compliment ironical..."

 

* "Go away madam/I should say madam/You display madam/Shocking taste..."

** Really, the entire Act I Finale.

* "Soon as we may/Off and away/We'll commence our journey airy/Happy are we/As you can see/{{spoiler|Everyone is now a fairy}}!"

 

* "Search throughout the panorama / For a sign of royal Gama / Who today shall cross the water / With his fascinating daughter / Ida is her name!"

* "If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am/I'm a genuine philanthropist all other kinds are sham."

* "This helmet, I suppose / Was meant to ward off blows..."

 

* "If you want to know who we aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare, / We are gentlemen of Japaaaaaaaaaan..."

* "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found/I've got a little list/I've got a little list..."

* "Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be, Filled to the brim with girlish glee, Three little maids from school..."

 

* "If somebody there chanced to be/Who loved me in a manner true..."

* "Welcome, gentry/For your entry/Sets our tender hearts a-beating..."

* "I shipped, d'ye see, on a Revenue sloop..."

 

* "When jealous torments rack my soul/My agonies I can't control/Oh, better sit on red hot coal/Than love a heartless jade."

* "Oh a private buffoon is a lighthearted loon/If you listen to popular rumor..."

** "Heighdy, heighdy, miserey me, lackadaydee!"

 

* "There lived a king as I've been told/In the wonder-working days of old/When hearts were twice as good as gold/And twenty times as mellow..."

* "Then one of us will be a queen and sit on a golden throne..."

 

* "In every mental lore/'Tal lore/The statement smacks of vanity..."

* "Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, / Which empties our police courts and abolishes divorces. / (Divorce is nearly obsolete in England!)"

 

* "By the mystic regulation/Of our dark Association/Ere you open conversation/With another kindred soul/You must eat a sausage-roll!"

* "When you find you're a broken-down critter/Who is all of a trimmle and twitter/With your palette exceedingly bitter/As if you've just bitten a pill..."

* "Take my advice - when deep in debt/Set up a bank, and play Roulette!"