A More Human Mikado (from "The Mikado")-The King's Singers

[ti:A More Human Mikado (from 'The Mikado')] [ar:The King'S Singers] [al:Here's A Howdy Do] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]A More Human Mikado (from "The Mikado") - The King's Singers (国王歌手合唱团) [00:00.20]Written by：William Schwenck Gilbert/Sir Arthur Sullivan [00:00.30] [00:01.87]A more humane Mikado never [00:05.73]Did in Japan exist [00:07.41] [00:08.49]To nobody second [00:09.82]I'm certainly reckoned [00:11.23]A true philanthropist [00:12.88] [00:14.13]It is my very humane endeavour [00:17.95]To make to some extent [00:21.37]Each evil liver [00:23.24]A running river [00:25.28]Of harmless merriment [00:30.41] [00:39.12]My object all sublime [00:41.23]I shall achieve in time [00:42.66] [00:43.52]To let the punishment fit the crime [00:45.35] [00:46.25]The punishment fit the crime; [00:47.68] [00:48.38]And make each prisoner pent [00:50.38]Unwillingly represent [00:52.45]A source of innocent merriment [00:54.53]Of innocent merriment [00:56.10] [01:01.42]All prosy dull society sinners [01:05.56]Who chatter and bleat and bore [01:07.74] [01:08.60]Are sent to hear sermons [01:10.19]From mystical Germans [01:11.37]Who preach from ten till four [01:12.96] [01:16.73]The amateur tenor whose vocal villainies [01:19.26]All desire to shirk [01:22.34] [01:24.34]Shall during off-hours [01:25.99]Exhibit his powers [01:27.19]To Madame Tussaud's waxwork [01:28.72] [01:33.03]The lady who dyes a chemical yellow [01:35.49]Or stains her grey hair puce [01:37.28] [01:38.43]Or pinches her figure [01:40.67]Is painted with vigour [01:43.30]With permanent walnut juice [01:46.14] [01:47.88]The idiot who in railway carriages [01:50.33]Scribbles on window-panes [01:52.78] [01:53.56]We only suffer [01:55.69]To ride on a buffer [01:58.21]In Parliamentary trains [02:04.06] [02:08.11]My object all sublime [02:10.09]I shall achieve in time [02:12.28]To let the punishment fit the crime [02:14.31] [02:15.03]The punishment fit the crime; [02:16.66] [02:17.28]And make each prisoner pent [02:18.80] [02:19.35]Unwillingly represent [02:21.21]A source of innocent merriment [02:23.50]Of innocent merriment [02:25.43] [02:29.79]The advertising quack who wearies [02:34.04]With tales of countless cures [02:37.06]His teeth I've enacted [02:38.85]Shall all be extracted [02:40.32]By terrified amateurs [02:42.17] [02:45.60]The music-hall singer attends a series [02:48.67]Of masses and fugues and "ops" [02:52.67] [02:56.46]By Bach interwoven [02:58.21]With Spohr and Beethoven [02:59.60]At classical Monday Pops [03:01.22] [03:05.07]The billiard sharp who any one catches [03:08.14]His doom's extremely hard [03:10.42] [03:11.20]He's made to dwell [03:13.02] [03:13.84]In a dungeon cell [03:15.39]On a spot that's always barred [03:18.79] [03:19.88]And there he plays extravagant matches [03:22.91]In fitless finger-stalls [03:25.60] [03:26.30]On a cloth untrue [03:28.18] [03:29.15]With a twisted cue [03:31.13] [03:32.07]And elliptical billiard balls [03:37.98] [03:40.71]My object all sublime [03:42.77]He will achieve in time [03:44.86]To let the punishment fit the crime [03:46.98]The punishment fit the crime; [03:48.32] [03:49.14]And make each prisoner pent [03:51.12]Unwillingly represent [03:52.90]A source of innocent merriment [03:55.15]Of innocent merriment [03:56.72] [03:57.33]His object all sublime [03:58.94]He will achieve in time [04:00.95]To let the punishment fit the crime [04:03.37]The punishment fit the crime; [04:04.67] [04:05.39]And make each prisoner pent [04:07.42]Unwillingly represent [04:09.23]A source of innocent merriment [04:11.59]Of innocent merriment