《Rising Early In The Morning》歌词

[00:00:00] Rising Early In The Morning - Henry A Lytton/The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

[00:00:04] Rising early in the morning

[00:00:07] We proceed to light the fire

[00:00:09] Then our majesty adorning

[00:00:12] In it's workaday attire

[00:00:14] We embark without delay

[00:00:17] On the duties of the day

[00:00:21] First we polish off some batches

[00:00:22] Of political despatches

[00:00:23] And foreign politicians circumvent

[00:00:26] Then if business isn't heavy

[00:00:27] We may hold a royal levee

[00:00:28] Or ratify some acts of parliament

[00:00:31] Then we probably review the household troops

[00:00:33] With the usual shalloo humps and shalloo hoops

[00:00:36] Or receive with ceremonial and state

[00:00:38] An interesting Eastern potentate

[00:00:40] After that we generally

[00:00:41] Go and dress our private valet

[00:00:43] It's a rather nervous

[00:00:44] Duty he's a touchy little man

[00:00:45] Write some letters literary

[00:00:46] For our private secretary

[00:00:48] He is shaky in his spelling

[00:00:49] So we help him if we can

[00:00:51] Then in view of cravings inner

[00:00:52] We go down and order dinner

[00:00:53] Then we polish the regalia

[00:00:55] And the coronation plate

[00:00:56] Spend an hour in titivating

[00:00:58] All our gentlemen in waiting

[00:00:59] Or we run on little errands

[00:01:00] For the ministers of state

[00:01:02] Oh philosophers may sing

[00:01:05] Of the troubles of a King

[00:01:06] Yet the duties are delightful

[00:01:07] And the privileges great

[00:01:09] But the privilege and pleasure

[00:01:10] That we treasure beyond measure

[00:01:11] Is to run on little errands for the ministers of state

[00:01:14] Oh philosophers may sing

[00:01:17] Of the troubles of a King

[00:01:18] Yet the duties are delightful

[00:01:20] And the privileges great

[00:01:21] And the culminating pleasure

[00:01:22] That we treasure beyond measure

[00:01:23] Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done

[00:01:26] After luncheon making merry

[00:01:28] On a bun and glass of sherry

[00:01:29] If we've nothing in particular to do

[00:01:31] We may make a proclamation

[00:01:33] Or receive a deputation

[00:01:34] Then we possibly create a peer or two

[00:01:36] Then we help a fellow creature on his path

[00:01:39] With the garter or the thistle or the bath

[00:01:41] Or we dress and toddle off in semi state

[00:01:43] To a festival a function or a fete

[00:01:46] Then we go and stand as sentry

[00:01:47] At the palace private entry

[00:01:48] Marching hither marching thither

[00:01:50] Up and down and to and fro

[00:01:51] While the warrior on duty

[00:01:52] Goes in search of beer and beauty

[00:01:54] And it generally happens

[00:01:55] That he hasn't far to go

[00:01:57] He relieves us if he's able

[00:01:58] Just in time to lay the table

[00:01:59] Then we dine and serve the coffee

[00:02:01] And at half past twelve or one

[00:02:03] With a pleasure that's emphatic

[00:02:04] We retire to our attic

[00:02:06] With the gratifying feeling

[00:02:07] That our duty has been done

[00:02:09] Oh philosophers may sing

[00:02:12] Of the troubles of a King

[00:02:13] But of pleasures there are many

[00:02:15] And of worries there are none

[00:02:16] And the culminating pleasure

[00:02:17] That we treasure beyond measure

[00:02:18] Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done

[00:02:22] Oh philosophers may sing

[00:02:25] Of the troubles of a King

[00:02:26] But of pleasures there are many

[00:02:27] And of worries there are none

[00:02:28] And the culminating pleasure

[00:02:29] That we treasure beyond measure

[00:02:31] Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done