Oh! A Private Buffoon-Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood

[ti:Oh! A Private Buffoon] [ar:Syria Lamonte] [al:Gilbert & Sullivan: The Early Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Oh! A Private Buffoon (哦！一间私家小丑) (from 'The Yeomen Of The Guard' Act 2) - Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood [00:08.25]OH [00:08.59]A private buffoon is a light hearted loon [00:10.67]If you listen to popular rumour; [00:12.53]From the morn to the night [00:13.80]He's so joyous and bright [00:14.78]And he bubbles with wit and good humour [00:16.93]He's so quaint and so terse [00:18.05]Both in prose and in verse [00:19.32]Yet though people forgive his transgressions; [00:21.45]There are one or two rules [00:23.30]That all family fools must observe [00:26.05]If they love their profession [00:27.43] [00:27.99]There are one or two rules [00:29.59]Half a dozen maybe [00:30.67]That all family fools of what ever degree [00:32.77] [00:33.93]Must observe if they love their profession [00:35.92] [00:39.35]If you wish to succeed as a jester [00:41.34]You'll need to consider each person's auricular [00:43.81]What is all right for B would quite scandalize C [00:46.23]For C is so very particular; [00:48.27]And D may be dull [00:49.56]And E's very thick skull is [00:50.76]As empty of brains as a ladle; [00:52.92]While F is F sharp [00:54.67]And will cry with a carp [00:56.27] [00:56.83]That he's known your best joke from his cradle [00:59.48]When your humour they flout [01:00.97]Can't let you go [01:02.02]And it does put you out [01:03.50]When person says [01:04.33]Oh [01:04.98] [01:05.61]I've known that old joke from my cradle [01:07.67] [01:10.98]Comes a Bishop maybe [01:12.33]Or a solemn D D Oh [01:13.53]Beware of his anger provoking [01:15.45]Better not pull his hair [01:16.84]Don't stick pins in his chair [01:18.18]He don't understand practical joking [01:20.21]If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack [01:22.63]You may get a bland smile form these sages; [01:24.93]But should they [01:25.60]By chance be imported from France [01:28.45] [01:29.00]Half a crown is stopped of from your wages [01:31.51] [01:32.18]It's a general rule [01:33.22]Though your zeal it may quench [01:34.71]If the family fool tells a joke that's too french [01:37.21] [01:38.10]Half a crown is stopped out of his wages [01:40.09] [01:43.98]Though your head it may rack with a bilious attack [01:46.48]And your senses with tooth ache your losing [01:48.71]Don't be mopy and flat [01:49.80]They don't fine you for that [01:51.18]If your properly quaint and amusing [01:52.97] [01:53.58]Though your wife ran away [01:54.82]With a soldier that day [01:56.16]And took with her your trifle of money; [01:58.05] [01:58.92]Bless your heart they don't mind [02:00.65] [02:01.25]They're exceedingly kind [02:02.73] [02:03.46]They don't blame you as long as you're funny [02:06.13] [02:06.80]It's a comfort to feel [02:08.42]If your partner should flit [02:09.59]Though you suffer a deal [02:10.85]They don't mind it a bit [02:12.26] [02:13.62]They don't blame you so long as your funny