No. 6 - Duet - Dame Hecla Cortlandt and Governor Griffenfeld

from "His Excellency"
Music by Frank Osmond Carr
Words by W. S. Gilbert
Sequenced by Colin Johnson
All Rights Reserved

Now what would I do if you proved untrue,
and the suit you pressed were an idle jest,
and the conjugal yoke a brainless joke, and
if marry your darling you couldn't?
Yes, what would you do if I proved untrue,
And if marry my darling I couldn't?
What would I do if you owned some day
that, a wager to win, you had taken me in,
and the fact disclosed that you just proposed
because somebody bet you you wouldn't?
If I owned some day that I sang that lay,
Because somebody bet me I wouldn't?
Why the trembling rock from an earthquake's shock,
and the ocean's roar on the rockbound shore,
and the hellbabe's scream were a peaceful dream,
to the terrible broth of my brewing;
The tiger's gnash, and the cutthroat's gash,
and the foeman's clash, and the thundercrash
of eternal smash were unmeaning trash,
compared with my hullaballooing!

It might, perhaps, be rather rash
The truth upon - her mind to flash
If an earthquake's shock were idle trash
Compared with her hullaballooing!

Like grey screechowl (that hideous fowl)
in a midnight cowl I'd slink and prowl
till a horrible howl and a tiger's growl
had told the world I'd found you!
With abject fell and a yelp and yell,
on Vengeance's wing at my foe I'd spring,
and face to face in a close embrace
I'd wind my arms around you!
Your heart I'd tear from its loathsome lair-
I'd pluck out your eyes, and your tongue likewise-
and limb from limb, with a growling grin,
I'd rend him who poohpoohs me!
Excuse me, please. When people tease,
by slow degrees I kick up a breeze
which you can't appeaseit's quite a disease-
I'll go and lie downexcuse me!

Karaoke version compiled by Colin Johnson

No. 6 - Duet - Dame and Governor
Soft karaoke
Words
Dame Hecla
Griffenfeld
Right Hand
Left Hand
Karaoke Track