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No. 12 - Recitative (Attention pray) and Song 12a - Fairfax - Chivalry
| Takamini: | Attention, pray! And silence, if you please! The Tea House Regulation Act decrees By Section Seventeen, Sub-section Three, That if a holder of a licence be Found guilty after trial or before Of disobedience to superior Authority; by this enactment old His Tea House and its contents must be sold; And all indentures of his geisha too, By public auction unreserved must go! Such is the law! |
| Imari: | It is! I made it so! |
| Takamini: | My duty I must now proceed to do. Lot Number One! Bring forth Mimosa San. The Champion Geisha, pride of all Japan! |
| Chorus: | Come forth, Mimosa, pride of all Japan, Queen of the Tea House, O Mimosa San! |
| Katana: | Oh, help me, comrade, ere it is too late, To save Mimosa from this dreadful fate! |
| Fairfax: | Stop! If your country you would not disgrace, Give orders that this sale shall not take place! Come, men, what code of honour do you hold? Will you stand by and see a woman sold? While nature with manhood endows us, And beauty our pulses can fire, There's never a sight that can rouse us Like woman in danger most dire. We ask not the why or the wherefore, The wrong or the right of her cause-- When man has a woman to dare for, Her weakness and need are his laws! O men, by the hearts that are in us, By chivalry, honour and right, The wrongs of a woman must win us Till death in her service to fight! |
| Chorus: | O men, by the hearts that are in us, By chivalry, honour and right, The wrongs of a woman must win us Till death in her service to fight! |
| Fairfax: | No matter what nation may claim us Or under what flag we parade, A moment's inaction would shame us When woman has need of our aid. The veriest outcast and stranger Appeals to our sympathies then; Enough that a woman's in danger-- Enough that she's pleading to men! O men, by the hearts that are in us, By chivalry, honour and right, The wrongs of a woman must win us Till death in her service to fight! |
| Chorus: | O men, by the hearts that are in us, By chivalry, honour and right, The wrongs of a woman must win us Till death in her service to fight! |
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Page modified 4 December 2016