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D'oyly Carte Opera Company When The Foeman Bares His Steel Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 9.50/10 [4 votes]Album: Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial By Jury & the Pirates of Penzance / Original Release Date: 2004Genre: ClassicalSong Duration: 4 min 38 sec
D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY
- When The Foeman Bares His Steel Lyrics / with translations(Enter POLICE, marching in single file. They form in
line, facing audience.)
SOLOS AND CHORUS: When the foeman bares his steel
SERGEANT: When the foeman bares his steel,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We uncomfortable feel,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: And we find the wisest thing,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Is to slap our chests and sing,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: For when threatened with émeutes,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: And your heart is in your boots,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: There is nothing brings it round
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Like the trumpet's martial sound
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.
MABEL: Go, ye heroes, go to glory,
Though you die in combat gory,
Ye shall live in song and story.
Go to immortality!
Go to death, and go to slaughter;
Die, and every Cornish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water.
Go, ye heroes, go and die!
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go and die! Go, ye heroes, go and
die!
SERGEANT: Though to us it's evident,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: These attentions are well meant,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Such expressions don't appear,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Calculated men to cheer
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Who are going to meet their fate
In a highly nervous state.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Still to us it's evident
These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
EDITH: Go and do your best endeavour,
And before all links we sever,
We will say farewell for-ever.
Go to glory and the grave!
GIRLS: Go to glory and the grave!
For your foes are fierce and ruthless,
False, unnierciful, and truthless;
Young and tender, old and toothless,
All in vain their mercy crave.
SERGEANT: We observe too great a stress,
On the risks that on us press,
And of reference a lack
To our chance of coming back.
Still, perhaps it would be wise
Not to carp or criticise,
For it's very evident
These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Yes, it's very evident
These attentions are well meant,
Evident, yes, well meant, evident
Ah, yes, well meant!
POLICE:
When the foeman bares his steel, etc.
GIRLS:
Go, ye heroes, go to glory! etc.
GENERAL: Away, away!
POLICE: (without moving) Yes, yes, we go.
GENERAL: These pirates slay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then do not stay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then why this delay?
POLICE: All right, we go.
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe!
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe!
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: At last they go!
At last they really go!
line, facing audience.)
SOLOS AND CHORUS: When the foeman bares his steel
SERGEANT: When the foeman bares his steel,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: We uncomfortable feel,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: And we find the wisest thing,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Is to slap our chests and sing,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: For when threatened with émeutes,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: And your heart is in your boots,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: There is nothing brings it round
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Like the trumpet's martial sound
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.
MABEL: Go, ye heroes, go to glory,
Though you die in combat gory,
Ye shall live in song and story.
Go to immortality!
Go to death, and go to slaughter;
Die, and every Cornish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water.
Go, ye heroes, go and die!
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go and die! Go, ye heroes, go and
die!
SERGEANT: Though to us it's evident,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: These attentions are well meant,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Such expressions don't appear,
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Calculated men to cheer
POLICE: Tarantara!
SERGEANT: Who are going to meet their fate
In a highly nervous state.
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
SERGEANT: Still to us it's evident
POLICE: Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
EDITH: Go and do your best endeavour,
And before all links we sever,
We will say farewell for-ever.
Go to glory and the grave!
GIRLS: Go to glory and the grave!
For your foes are fierce and ruthless,
False, unnierciful, and truthless;
Young and tender, old and toothless,
All in vain their mercy crave.
SERGEANT: We observe too great a stress,
On the risks that on us press,
And of reference a lack
To our chance of coming back.
Still, perhaps it would be wise
Not to carp or criticise,
For it's very evident
These attentions are well meant.
POLICE: Yes, it's very evident
These attentions are well meant,
Evident, yes, well meant, evident
Ah, yes, well meant!
POLICE:
When the foeman bares his steel, etc.
GIRLS:
Go, ye heroes, go to glory! etc.
GENERAL: Away, away!
POLICE: (without moving) Yes, yes, we go.
GENERAL: These pirates slay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then do not stay.
POLICE: Tarantara!
GENERAL: Then why this delay?
POLICE: All right, we go.
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe!
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: Yes, forward on the foe!
Yes, forward on the foe!
GENERAL: Yes, but you don't go!
POLICE: We go, we go
ALL: At last they go!
At last they really go!
Facts about When The Foeman Bares His Steel
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When The Foeman Bares His Steel is first released in 2004 as part of D'oyly Carte Opera Company's album "Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial By Jury & the Pirates of Penzance" which includes 50 tracks in total. This song is the 39th track on this album.
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When The Foeman Bares His Steel falls under the genre Classical.
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When The Foeman Bares His Steel song length is 4 minutes and 38 seconds.
When was When The Foeman Bares His Steel released?
When The Foeman Bares His Steel is first released in 2004 as part of D'oyly Carte Opera Company's album "Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial By Jury & the Pirates of Penzance" which includes 50 tracks in total. This song is the 39th track on this album.
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Which genre is When The Foeman Bares His Steel?
When The Foeman Bares His Steel falls under the genre Classical.
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How long is the song When The Foeman Bares His Steel?
When The Foeman Bares His Steel song length is 4 minutes and 38 seconds.
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Our bravery knows no limits until we meet the foe. A very human condition.