Titel - Here's a Howdy Do

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Oh, Nanki-Poo!
Oh, Yum-Yum!

Yum-Yum in tears - and on her wedding morn!

Within a month you ought to be beheaded!

Humph!  Now, some bridegrooms would be depressed by this sort of thing!

And I've just ascertained that, by the Mikado's law, when a married man is beheaded his wife is buried alive.

Here's a howdy-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 howdy,
Here's a howdy,
Here's a howdy,
Here's a howdy-do, a howdy-do, a howdy!

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,
Here's a pretty mess,
Oh, here's a pretty...

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,
Here's a state of things,
Here's a state of things,
Here's a state of things!

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

Darling -
I don't want to appear selfish, and I love you with all my heart -
but when I agreed to marry you - my own -
I had no idea - pet - that I should have to be buried alive in a month!

Here's a howdy-do!
Such a stuffy death!
You see my difficulty, don't you?

Yes, and I see my own. If I insist on carrying out your promise,
I doom you to a hideous end;
if I release you, you marry Ko-Ko at once!

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

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

Here's a howdy-do!
Here's a howdy-do!
For if what he says is true
He cannot, cannot marry you.
Here's a pretty,
Here's a pretty,
Here's a pretty,
Here's a pretty,
Here's a pretty howdy-do!

Produzent: Daryl Runswick

Arrangement: Peter Gritton

aus "The Mikado"

Here's a Howdy Do! (1993)

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