PRINCE Take my advice, when deep in debt,
Set up a bank and play Roulette!
At once distrust you surely lull,
And rook the pigeon and the gull.
The bird will stake his ev'ry franc
In wild attempt to break the bank--
But you may stake your life and limb
The bank will end by breaking him!
Allons encore,
Garçons, fillettes,
Vos louis d'ore
Vos roues de charette!
Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà!
Mais faites vos jeux--
Allons, la classe--
Le temps ce passe--
La banque ce casse--

Le dixsept noir, impair et manque!
Holà! Holà! Vive la banque!
For ev'ry time the board you spin,
The bank is bound to win!
CH. For ev'ry time the board you spin,
ALL The bank is bound to win!

PRINCE A cosmic game is this Roulette!
The little ball's a true coquette--
A maiden coy whom 'numbers' woo--
Whom six and thirty suitors sue!
Of all complexions, too, good lack!
For some are red and some are black,
And some must be extremely green,
For half of them are not nineteen!
Allons encore,
Garçons, fillettes,
Vos louis d'ore,
Vos roues de charette.
Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà!
Mais faites vos jeux--
Allons la foule!
Ça roule, ça roule
Le temps s'écoule,

Le trentecinq rouge, impair et passe!
Très bien, étudiants de la classe--
The moral's safe when you begin
The bank is bound to win!
CH. The moral's safe when you begin:
ALL The bank is bound to win!

PRINCE The little ball's a flirt inbred--
She flirts with black, she flirts with red;
From this to that she hops about
Then back to this as if in doubt.
To call her thoughtless were unkind--
The child is making up her mind,
For all the world like all the rest,
Which prétendant will pay the best!

Allons encore--
Garçons, fillettes--
Vos louis d'ore--
Vos roues de charette!
Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà! Holà!
Mais faites vos jeux--
Qui perte fit
Au temps jadis
Gagne aujourd'hui!

Tra, la, la la! Le double zéro!
Vous perdez tout, mes nobles héros--
Where'er at last the ball pops in,
The bank is bound to win!
CH. Where'er at last the ball pops in,
ALL The bank is bound to win!

By Gilbert & Sullivan
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Grand Duke 27
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Prince
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