Track Title:               Mikado:  Here's a How-De-Do

Album Title:               Opera for People Who Hate Opera, disc c
Prime Artist:              Gilbert & Sullivan
Orchestra:                 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

Lyrics:
YUM.           Here's a how-de-do!
               If I marry you,
          When your time has come to perish,
          Then the maiden whom you cherish
               Must be slaughtered, too!
               Here's a how-de-do!

NANK.          Here's a pretty mess!
               In a month, or less,
          I must die without a wedding!
          Let the bitter tears I'm shedding
               Witness my distress,
               Here's a pretty mess!

KO.            Here's a state of things
               To her life she clings!
          Matrimonial devotion
          Doesn't seem to suit her notion--
               Burial it brings!
               Here's a state of things!

                             ENSEMBLE

     YUM-YUM and NANKI-POO.                        KO-KO.

With a passion that's intense           With a passion that's intense
     I worship and adore,                    You worship and adore,
But the laws of common sense            But the laws of common sense
     We oughtn't to ignore.                  You oughtn't to ignore.
If what he says is true,                If what I say is true,
     'Tis death to marry you!                'Tis death to marry you!
Here's a pretty state of things!        Here's a pretty state of things!
     Here's a pretty how-de-do!              Here's a pretty how-de-do!