What Ought We to Do? Lyrics — Pirates of Penzance, The
What Ought We to Do? Lyrics
Edith:
What ought we to do
Gentle sisters say?
Propriety we know
Says we ought to stay
Kate:
While sympathy exclaims
Freedom from your tether
Play it on our gains
Leave them here together
Isabel:
Her case may any day
Be yours, my dear or mine
Let her make her hay
While the sun doth shine
Let us compromise,
Our hearts are not of leather
Let us shut our eyes
And talk about the weather
Girls:
Yes, yes let's talk about the weather
What ought we to do
Gentle sisters say?
Propriety we know
Says we ought to stay
Kate:
While sympathy exclaims
Freedom from your tether
Play it on our gains
Leave them here together
Isabel:
Her case may any day
Be yours, my dear or mine
Let her make her hay
While the sun doth shine
Let us compromise,
Our hearts are not of leather
Let us shut our eyes
And talk about the weather
Girls:
Yes, yes let's talk about the weather
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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