《Sullivan: The Mikado / Act 2 - 27. A More Humane Mikado Never Did In Japan Exist》歌词

[00:00:00] A More Humane Mikado Never Did In Japan Exist (萨利文：一种更加人性化的天皇从来没有在日本存在) - Donald Adams/The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus/The New Symphony Orchestra Of London (伦敦新交响乐团)/Isidore Godfrey (伊西多尔·戈弗雷)

[00:00:05] A more humane Mikado never

[00:00:07] Did in Japan exist

[00:00:10] To nobody second

[00:00:11] I'm certainly reckoned

[00:00:12] A true philanthropist

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

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

[00:00:20] Each evil liver

[00:00:21] A running river

[00:00:24] Of harmless merriment

[00:00:29] My object all sublime

[00:00:31] I shall achieve in time

[00:00:34] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:00:36] The punishment fit the crime

[00:00:39] And make each prisoner pent

[00:00:41] Unwillingly represent

[00:00:44] A source of innocent merriment

[00:00:47] Of innocent merriment

[00:00:55] All prosy dull society sinners

[00:00:57] Who chatter and bleat and bore

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

[00:01:02] From mystical germans

[00:01:02] Who preach from ten till four

[00:01:05] The amateur tenor

[00:01:07] Whose vocal villainies

[00:01:08] All desire to shirk

[00:01:10] Shall during off-hours

[00:01:12] Exhibit his powers

[00:01:13] To Madame Tussaud's waxwork

[00:01:15] The lady who dyes a chemical yellow

[00:01:18] Or stains her grey hair puce

[00:01:20] Or pinches her figure

[00:01:22] Is painted with vigour

[00:01:25] And permanent walnut juice

[00:01:28] The idiot who in railway carriages

[00:01:31] Scribbles on window-panes

[00:01:34] We only suffer

[00:01:36] To ride on a buffer

[00:01:38] In parliamentary trains

[00:01:51] My object all sublime

[00:01:53] I shall achieve in time

[00:01:56] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:01:59] The punishment fit the crime

[00:02:01] And make each prisoner pent

[00:02:04] Unwillingly represent

[00:02:07] A source of innocent merriment

[00:02:09] Of innocent merriment

[00:02:12] His object all sublime

[00:02:15] He will achieve in time

[00:02:17] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:02:20] The punishment fit the crime

[00:02:23] And make each prisoner pent

[00:02:25] Unwillingly represent

[00:02:27] A source of innocent merriment

[00:02:30] Of innocent merriment

[00:02:37] The advertising quack who wearies

[00:02:39] With tales of countless cures

[00:02:41] His teeth I've enacted

[00:02:43] Shall all be extracted

[00:02:44] By terrified amateurs

[00:02:47] The music-hall singer attends a series

[00:02:49] Of masses and fugues and ops

[00:02:52] By Bach interwoven

[00:02:54] With Spohr and Beethoven

[00:02:55] At classical Monday Pops

[00:02:57] The billiard sharp

[00:02:59] Who any one catches

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

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

[00:03:04] In a dungeon cell

[00:03:07] On a spot that's always barred

[00:03:11] And there he plays extravagant matches

[00:03:14] In fitless finger-stalls

[00:03:17] On a cloth untrue

[00:03:19] With a twisted cue

[00:03:22] And elliptical billiard balls

[00:03:39] My object all sublime

[00:03:42] I shall achieve in time

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

[00:03:47] The punishment fit the crime

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

[00:03:52] Unwillingly represent

[00:03:55] A source of innocent merriment

[00:03:57] Of innocent merriment

[00:04:00] His object all sublime

[00:04:03] He will achieve in time

[00:04:05] To let the punishment fit the crime

[00:04:08] The punishment fit the crime

[00:04:10] And make each prisoner pent

[00:04:13] Unwillingly represent

[00:04:15] A source of innocent merriment

[00:04:18] Of innocent merriment