A More Humane Mikado-Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood

[ti:A More Humane Mikado] [ar:Syria Lamonte] [al:Gilbert & Sullivan: The Early Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A More Humane Mikado (from 'The Mikado', Act 2) - Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood [00:04.78]A more humane mikado never [00:07.27]Did in japan exist [00:09.82]To nobody second [00:11.06]I'm certainly reckoned [00:12.22]A true philanthropist [00:14.11] [00:14.90]It is my very humane endeavour [00:17.79]To make to some extent [00:19.80] [00:20.43]Each evil liver [00:21.93]A running river [00:23.58]Of harmless merriment [00:26.44] [00:28.13]My object all sublime [00:30.97]I shall achieve in time [00:33.62]To let the punishment fit the crime [00:36.32]The punishment fit the crime [00:38.81]And make each prisoner pent [00:40.96] [00:41.49]Unwillingly represent [00:43.39] [00:44.00]A source of innocent merriment [00:46.67]Of innocent merriment [00:48.80] [00:54.62]The advertising quack who wearies [00:56.90]With tales of countless cures [00:59.35]His teeth i've enacted [01:00.93]Shall all be extracted [01:02.05]By terrified amateurs [01:04.67]The music hall singer attends a series [01:07.55]Of masses and fugues and ops [01:10.16]By bach interwoven [01:11.67]With spohr and beethoven [01:13.17]At classical monday pops [01:15.05] [01:15.65]The billiard sharp who any one catches [01:18.40]His doom's extremely hard [01:21.06]He's made to dwell [01:22.33]In a dungeon cell [01:23.87]On a spot that's always barred [01:27.37]And there he plays extravagant matches [01:30.26]In fitless finger stalls [01:32.92]On a cloth untrue [01:34.71]With a twisted cue [01:36.77]And elliptical billiard balls [01:43.84] [01:44.71]My object all sublime [01:47.79]I shall achieve in time [01:50.48]To let the punishment fit the crime [01:53.20]The punishment fit the crime [01:55.77]And make each prisoner pent [01:57.92] [01:58.44]Unwillingly represent [02:01.00]A source of innocent merriment [02:03.71]Of innocent merriment [02:06.36]My object all sublime [02:09.22]I shall achieve in time [02:11.98]To let the punishment fit the crime [02:14.82]The punishment fit the crime [02:17.33]And make each prisoner pent [02:20.06]Unwillingly represent [02:22.21] [02:22.74]A source of innocent merriment [02:25.63]Of innocent merriment