Patience: When I First Put This Uniform On-Glyndebourne Festival Chorus

[ti:Patience: When I First Put This Uniform On] [ar:Glyndebourne Festival Chorus] [al:Gilbert & Sullivan: The Highlights] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Patience: When I First Put This Uniform On - Glyndebourne Festival Chorus [00:09.17]When I first put this uniform on [00:11.51]I said as I looked in the glass [00:13.84]It's one to a million [00:15.00]That any civilian [00:16.09]My figure and form will surpass [00:18.36]Gold lace has a charm for the fair [00:20.66]And I've plenty of that and to spare [00:22.92]While a lover's professions [00:24.17]When uttered in Hessians [00:25.23]Are eloquent everywhere [00:27.47]A fact that I counted upon [00:29.41]When I first put this uniform on [00:32.07]By a simple coincidence few [00:34.42]Could ever have counted upon [00:36.74]The same thing occurred to me [00:38.74]When I first put this uniform on [00:41.34]I said when I first put it on [00:43.59]It is plain to the veriest dunce [00:45.94]That every beauty [00:47.04]Will feel it her duty [00:48.25]To yield to its glamour at once [00:50.45]They will see that I'm freely gold-laced [00:52.82]In a uniform handsome and chaste [00:55.11]But the peripatetics [00:56.26]Of long-haired aesthetics [00:57.47]Are very much more to their taste [00:59.74]Which I never counted upon [01:01.80]When I first put this uniform on [01:04.43]By a simple coincidence few [01:06.73]Could ever have counted upon [01:09.06]I didn't anticipate that [01:11.11]When I first put this uniform on