All Is Prepared / Stay, Frederic, Stay! Lyrics — Pirates of Penzance, The
All Is Prepared / Stay, Frederic, Stay! Lyrics
MABEL
All is prepared, your gallant crew await you.
My Frederic in tears? It cannot be
That lion-heart quails at the coming conflict?
FREDERIC
No, Mabel, no.
A terrible disclosure
Has just been made.
Mabel, my dearly-loved one,
I bound myself to serve the pirate captain
Until I reached my one-and-twentieth birthday
MABEL
But you are twenty-one?
FREDERIC
I've just discovered
That I was born in leap-year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till nineteen forty!
MABEL
Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling!
FREDERIC
And so, farewell!
MABEL
No, no!
Ah, Frederic, hear me.
All is prepared, your gallant crew await you.
My Frederic in tears? It cannot be
That lion-heart quails at the coming conflict?
FREDERIC
No, Mabel, no.
A terrible disclosure
Has just been made.
Mabel, my dearly-loved one,
I bound myself to serve the pirate captain
Until I reached my one-and-twentieth birthday
MABEL
But you are twenty-one?
FREDERIC
I've just discovered
That I was born in leap-year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till nineteen forty!
MABEL
Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling!
FREDERIC
And so, farewell!
MABEL
No, no!
Ah, Frederic, hear me.
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Pirates of Penzance, The Lyrics: Song List
- Act 1
- Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry
- You Are Too Tender-Hearted
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- Oh, Better Far to Live and Die
- Oh! False One, You Have Deceived Me
- Climbing over Rocky Mountain
- Stop, Ladies, Pray!
- Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
- Oh, Sisters, Deaf To Pity’s Name
- Poor Wandering One
- What Ought We to Do?
- How Beautifully Blue the Sky
- Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
- Hold, Monsters!
- I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
- And Now That I’ve Introduced Myself (Dialogue)
- For He Is An Orphan Boy
- Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
- Finale Act I
- Act 2
- Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
- I’m Telling a Terrible Story
- Now, Frederic, Let Your Escort Lion-Hearted When the Foeman Bares His Steel
- Now for the Pirates' Lair!
- When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
- Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire
- All Is Prepared / Stay, Frederic, Stay!
- No, I'll be brave
- When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment
- A Rollicking Ban of Pirates We
- With Cat-Like Tread
- Hush, Hush! Not a Word / Sighing Softly to the River
- Finale