歌曲名 27 A More Humane Mikado Never Did In Japan Exist

歌手名 Donald Adams+The Doyly Carte Opera Chorus+The New Symphony Orchestra Of London+Isidore Godfrey

作词：William Schwenck Gilbert

作曲：Arthur Seymour Sullivan

A more humane Mikado never

Did in Japan exist

To nobody second

I'm certainly reckoned

A true philanthropist

It is my very humane endeavour

To make to some extent

Each evil liver

A running river

Of harmless merriment

My object all sublime

I shall achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime

The punishment fit the crime

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment

Of innocent merriment

All prosy dull society sinners

Who chatter and bleat and bore

Are sent to hear sermons

From mystical germans

Who preach from ten till four

The amateur tenor

Whose vocal villainies

All desire to shirk

Shall during off-hours

Exhibit his powers

To Madame Tussaud's waxwork

The lady who dyes a chemical yellow

Or stains her grey hair puce

Or pinches her figure

Is painted with vigour

And permanent walnut juice

The idiot who in railway carriages

Scribbles on window-panes

We only suffer

To ride on a buffer

In parliamentary trains

My object all sublime

I shall achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime

The punishment fit the crime

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment

Of innocent merriment

His object all sublime

He will achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime

The punishment fit the crime

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment

Of innocent merriment

The advertising quack who wearies

With tales of countless cures

His teeth I've enacted

Shall all be extracted

By terrified amateurs

The music-hall singer attends a series

Of masses and fugues and ops

By Bach interwoven

With Spohr and Beethoven

At classical Monday Pops

The billiard sharp

Who any one catches

His doom's extremely hard

He's made to dwell

In a dungeon cell

On a spot that's always barred

And there he plays extravagant matches

In fitless finger-stalls

On a cloth untrue

With a twisted cue

And elliptical billiard balls

My object all sublime

I shall achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime

The punishment fit the crime

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment

Of innocent merriment

His object all sublime

He will achieve in time

To let the punishment fit the crime

The punishment fit the crime

And make each prisoner pent

Unwillingly represent

A source of innocent merriment

Of innocent merriment