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No. 13 - Finale Act I
| Chorus: | We have come here now To renew our protestation To the great Yen How Of our zeal and adoration, In these wide domains There is no official better As our monarch deigns To inform him in a letter, In a special yellow letter, A special yellow letter, To inform him in a letter, In a special yellow letter. |
| Yen How: | The Emperor, oh joy! Has sent for my San Toy. |
| Chorus: | What honour intense To be summon'd hence At a vast expense Through a special yellow letter. What does the letter say? |
| Yen How: | He must depart today! |
| Tucker: | Yen How, I'm sure I wish you joy, You are a lucky father! My friend will gladly take your boy. |
| Bobbie: | Oh, rather! |
| Poppy: | Oh, rather! |
| Tucker: | Sea air is good for wind and limb, So have no fear about it. The trip will make a man of him. |
| Bobbie: | I doubt it! |
| Poppy: | I doubt it! |
| Dudley: | I very greatly doubt it! |
| San Toy: | Father the grief you feel Your face cannot conceal, Oh! let me know! |
| Yen How: | My care is all in vain, The message comes again That you must go! And if you are not sent, By dreadful punishment I must atone! I must atone! |
| San Toy: | I'll be a girl once more And join the Ladies' Corps, The Emperor's Own! The Emperor's Own! |
| Tucker: | Yes, pack your traps up, for you start As quckly as you can! Don't cry, my boy, but pluck up heart And try to be a man. |
| San Toy: | I'll try to be a man. |
| Poppy: | Don't be a man, San Toy, oh! Stay if you can a boy, oh! Men are so bold, So I am told, Better be cold and coy, oh! |
| Chorus: | You be a man, San Toy, oh! Soon as you can, my boy, oh! Youth is a flow'r Gone in an hour, While you have power Enjoy, oh! |
| San Toy: | Farewell to my quiet garden, And on to the city's whirl For I'll earn my father's pardon In the garb of a soldier girl, With a heart that is sorrow laden Farewell to my Pynka Pong. And gladly I'll turn a maiden, For I've been a boy too long. |
| Bobbie: | The vessel tugs at her tether, The great tide sets to the sea. And out on the deep together You're coming, San Toy, with me. Happy with one another We journey to far Peking, Each of us fond as a brother, Fonder if anything! |
| San Toy & Bobbie: | Seaward the breeze is blowing Out on the sea we're going, How shall we fare? If you are there I shall not care For knowing! |
| Chorus: | Come back again, San Toy... |
| San Toy & Bobbie: | Seaward the breeze is blowing Out on the sea we're going, How shall we fare? If you are there I shall not care For knowing, For knowing! |
| Li: | Allo leady! Allo light! Captain said he sail tonight! Come on faster Or my master Have him headee Chop off quite! |
| Chorus: | Goodbye! hiyi! Farewell, there's the bell. Come on! they'll be gone, Goodbye. Goodbye. |
| Fo Hop: | What is this the people say? |
| Chorus: | Well, what? |
| Fo Hop: | That San Toy has gone away? |
| Chorus: | No jot? |
| Fo Hop: | [] Wretched man, what have you done, Sent your precious little one With the foreign Consul's son? |
| Chorus: | Why not? |
| Fo Hop: | I will tell you all the truth |
| Poppy & Yen How: | No, no! |
| Fo Hop: | For the youth is not a youth! |
| Chorus: | How so? |
| Fo Hop: | Your deception I destroy, By revealing that San Toy Is a girl and not a boy! |
| Chorus: | Oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! Oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! You must beat on the Emperor's drum With a roll and a rap and a rum For it hangs on the wall To be beaten by all Tum Tum Yet although there is mercy for some Tum Tum His prospects look gloomy and glum Tum Tum But he's haughty and high And he'll never say die Till he's beaten the Emperor's drum Tum Tum With a brrr... With a roll and a rum te tum tum On the Emperor's drum. |
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Page modified 23 February 2017