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For He Is An Orphan Boy Lyrics — Pirates of Penzance, The

For He Is An Orphan Boy Lyrics

[SAMUEL]
For he is an orphan boy!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
He is! Hurrah for the orphan boy!

[MAJOR-GENERAL]
And it sometimes is a useful thing
To be an orphan boy

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
It is! Hurrah for the orphan boy!
Hurrah for the orphan boy!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & Chorus OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
We/They will away and married be!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
We/They will away and married be!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & Chorus OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!
[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & Chorus OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee

We/They will away and married be!
Should it befall auspiciously
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & Chorus OF PIRATES]
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[RUTH]
Oh, master, hear one word, I do implore you!
Remember Ruth, your Ruth, who kneels before you!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Yes, yes, remember Ruth, who kneels before you!

[FREDERIC]
Away, you did deceive me!
[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Away, you did deceive him!

[RUTH]
Oh, do not leave me!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Oh, do not leave her!

[FREDERIC]
Away, you grieve me!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
Away, you grieve him!

[FREDERIC]
I wish you’d leave me!

[Chorus OF PIRATES]
We wish you’d leave him!

Pray observe the magnanimity
We display to lace and dimity!
Never was such opportunity
To get married with impunity
But we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity
[Chorus OF GIRLS]
Pray observe the magnanimity
They display to lace and dimity!
Never was such opportunity
To get married with impunity
But they give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity

[Chorus OF GIRLS & PIRATES]
But they/we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity
But they/we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity
Tho' a doctor of divinity
A doctor of divinity
A doctor, a doctor of divinity
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity
Tho' a doctor, a doctor
Resides in this vicinity
This vicinity!

[END OF ACT 1]

Pirates of Penzance, The Lyrics: Song List

  1. Act 1
  2. Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry
  3. You Are Too Tender-Hearted
  4. When Frederic Was a Little Lad
  5. Oh, Better Far to Live and Die
  6. Oh! False One, You Have Deceived Me
  7. Climbing over Rocky Mountain
  8. Stop, Ladies, Pray!
  9. Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast?
  10. Oh, Sisters, Deaf To Pity’s Name
  11. Poor Wandering One
  12. What Ought We to Do?
  13. How Beautifully Blue the Sky
  14. Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
  15. Hold, Monsters!
  16. I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
  17. And Now That I’ve Introduced Myself (Dialogue)
  18. For He Is An Orphan Boy
  19. Oh, Dry the Glistening Tear
  20. Finale Act I
  21. Act 2
  22. Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
  23. I’m Telling a Terrible Story
  24. Now, Frederic, Let Your Escort Lion-Hearted When the Foeman Bares His Steel
  25. Now for the Pirates' Lair!
  26. When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
  27. Away, Away! My Heart's on Fire
  28. All Is Prepared / Stay, Frederic, Stay!
  29. No, I'll be brave
  30. When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment
  31. A Rollicking Ban of Pirates We
  32. With Cat-Like Tread
  33. Hush, Hush! Not a Word / Sighing Softly to the River
  34. Finale

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