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Overview
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Character(s)
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- Vocal Parts
- Baritone
- High Note
- C2 (low C)
- Low Note
- C2 (low C)
- Style
- Comedic, Legit
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Context
The Captain leads the crew of the H.M.S.
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Captain: I am the Captain of the Pinafore!
All: And a right good Captain, too!
Captain: You’re very, very good,
And, be it understood,
He commands a right good crew.
All: We’re very, very good,
And, be it understood,
He commands a right good crew.
Captain: Though related to a peer,
I can hand, reef, and steer,
Or ship a selvagee;
AlI: I am never known to quail
At the fury of a gale,
And I’m never, never sick at sea!
All: What, never?
Captain: No, never?
All: What, never?
Captain: Hardly ever?
All: He’s hardly ever sick at sea.
Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,
For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,
For the Captain of the Pinafore.
Captain: I do my best to satisfy you all –
All: And with you we’re quite content.
Captain: You’re exceedingly polite,
And I think it only right
To return the compliment.
All: We’re exceedingly polite,
And he thinks it only right
To return the compliment.
Captain: Bad language or abuse,
I never, never use,
Whatever the emergencey;
Though “bother it”, I may
Occasionally say,
I never use a big, big D –
All: What, never?
Captain: No, never!
All: What, never?
Captain: Hardly ever!
All: Hardly ever swears a big, big D –
Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,
For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,
For the Captain of the Pinafore.
Cut Suggestions
This song is not suitable to a 16 or 32 bar cut
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