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MABEL: No, I'll be brave! Oh, family descent,
How great thy charm, thy sway how excellent!
Come one and all, undaunted men in blue,
A crisis, now, affairs are coming to!
SERGEANT: Though in body and in mind,
POLICE: Tarantara, tarantara!
SGT: We are timidly inclined,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SGT: And anything but blind
POLICE: Tarantara, tarantara!
SGT: To the danger that's behind,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SGT: Yet when the danger's near,
POLICE: Tarantara, tarantara!
SGT: We manage to appear,
POLICE: Tarantara!
SGT: As insensible to fear
As any body here,
As any body here.
POLICE: Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara,
Tarantara, tarantara, ra, ra,
Tarantara!

By Arthur Sullivan
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Pirates No 23
Lyrics
Mabel
Sergeant
Police Baritone
Police Bass
Piano Right
Piano Left
Tempo Track