《A More Human Mikado (From ”The Mikado”)》歌词

[00:00:00] A More Human Mikado (from "The Mikado") - The King'S Singers

[00:00:00] Written by：William Schwenck Gilbert/Sir Arthur Sullivan

[00:00:01] A more humane Mikado never

[00:00:05] Did in Japan exist

[00:00:08] To nobody second

[00:00:09] I'm certainly reckoned

[00:00:11] A true philanthropist

[00:00:14] It is my very humane endeavour

[00:00:17] To make to some extent

[00:00:21] Each evil liver

[00:00:23] A running river

[00:00:25] Of harmless merriment

[00:00:39] My object all sublime

[00:00:41] I shall achieve in time

[00:00:43] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:00:46] The punishment fit the crime;

[00:00:48] And make each prisoner pent

[00:00:50] Unwillingly represent

[00:00:52] A source of innocent merriment

[00:00:54] Of innocent merriment

[00:01:01] All prosy dull society sinners

[00:01:05] Who chatter and bleat and bore

[00:01:08] Are sent to hear sermons

[00:01:10] From mystical Germans

[00:01:11] Who preach from ten till four

[00:01:16] The amateur tenor whose vocal villainies

[00:01:19] All desire to shirk

[00:01:24] Shall during off-hours

[00:01:25] Exhibit his powers

[00:01:27] To Madame Tussaud's waxwork

[00:01:33] The lady who dyes a chemical yellow

[00:01:35] Or stains her grey hair puce

[00:01:38] Or pinches her figure

[00:01:40] Is painted with vigour

[00:01:43] With permanent walnut juice

[00:01:47] The idiot who in railway carriages

[00:01:50] Scribbles on window-panes

[00:01:53] We only suffer

[00:01:55] To ride on a buffer

[00:01:58] In Parliamentary trains

[00:02:08] My object all sublime

[00:02:10] I shall achieve in time

[00:02:12] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:02:15] The punishment fit the crime;

[00:02:17] And make each prisoner pent

[00:02:19] Unwillingly represent

[00:02:21] A source of innocent merriment

[00:02:23] Of innocent merriment

[00:02:29] The advertising quack who wearies

[00:02:34] With tales of countless cures

[00:02:37] His teeth I've enacted

[00:02:38] Shall all be extracted

[00:02:40] By terrified amateurs

[00:02:45] The music-hall singer attends a series

[00:02:48] Of masses and fugues and "ops"

[00:02:56] By Bach interwoven

[00:02:58] With Spohr and Beethoven

[00:02:59] At classical Monday Pops

[00:03:05] The billiard sharp who any one catches

[00:03:08] His doom's extremely hard

[00:03:11] He's made to dwell

[00:03:13] In a dungeon cell

[00:03:15] On a spot that's always barred

[00:03:19] And there he plays extravagant matches

[00:03:22] In fitless finger-stalls

[00:03:26] On a cloth untrue

[00:03:29] With a twisted cue

[00:03:32] And elliptical billiard balls

[00:03:40] My object all sublime

[00:03:42] He will achieve in time

[00:03:44] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:03:46] The punishment fit the crime;

[00:03:49] And make each prisoner pent

[00:03:51] Unwillingly represent

[00:03:52] A source of innocent merriment

[00:03:55] Of innocent merriment

[00:03:57] His object all sublime

[00:03:58] He will achieve in time

[00:04:00] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:04:03] The punishment fit the crime;

[00:04:05] And make each prisoner pent

[00:04:07] Unwillingly represent

[00:04:09] A source of innocent merriment

[00:04:11] Of innocent merriment