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SERGEANT: When a felon's not engaged in his employment,
CHORUS: His employment,
SGT.: Or maturing his felonious little plans,
CHORUS: Little plans,
SGT.: His capacity for innocent enjoyment,
CHORUS: 'Cent enjoyment,
SGT.: Is just as great as any honest man's.
CHORUS: Honest man's.
SGT.: Our feelings we with difficulty smother,
CHORUS: 'Culty smother,
SGT: When constabulary duty's to be done.
CHORUS: To be done.
SGT.: Ah, take one consideration with another,
CHORUS: With another,
SGT.: A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
CHORUS: Ah,
SGT. & CH.: When constabulary duty's to be done,
to be done,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one, happy one.

SGT.: When the enterprising burglar's not aburgling,
CHORUS: Not aburgling,
SGT.: When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime,
CHORUS: 'Pied in crime,
SGT.: He loves to hear the little brook agurgling,
CHORUS: Brook agurgling,
SGT.: And listen to the merry village chime.
CHORUS: Village chime.
SGT.: When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,
CHORUS: On his mother,
SGT.: He loves to lie abasking in the sun.
CHORUS: In the sun.
SGT.: Ah, take one consideration with another,
CHORUS: With another,
SGT.: A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
CHORUS: Ah,
SGT. & CH.: When constabulary duty's to be done,
to be done,
A policeman's lot is not a happy one, happy one.

By Arthur Sullivan
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Pirates No. 24
Lyrics
Sergeant
Police Baritone
Piano Right
Piano Left
Tempo Track