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doyly carte opera company - pour oh pour the pirate sherry lyrics

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opening chorus: pour, o pour the pirate sherry

all: pour, o pour the pirate sherry;
fill, o fill the pirate gl-ss;
and, to make us more than merry
let the pirate b-mper p-ss.

samuel: for today our pirate ‘prentice
rises from indentures freed;
strong his arm, and keen his scent is
he’s a pirate now indeed!

all: here’s good luck to fred’ric’s ventures!
fred’ric’s out of his indentures.

samuel: two and twenty, now he’s rising,
and alone he’s fit to fly,
which we’re bent on signalizing
with unusual revelry.

all: here’s good luck to fred’ric’s ventures!
fred’ric’s out of his indentures.

pour, o pour the pirate sherry;
fill, o fill the pirate gl-ss;
and, to make us more than merry
let the pirate b-mper p-ss.

(frederic rises and comes forward with pirate king, who
enters)

king: yes, frederic, from to-day you rank as a full-
blown member of our band.

all: aye!

frederic: my friends, i thank you all, from my heart,
for your kindly wishes. would that i could repay them
as they deserve!

king: what do you mean?

frederic: to-day i am out of my indentures, and to-day
i leave you for ever.

king: but this is quite unaccountable; a keener hand at
scuttling a cunarder or cutting out a white star never
shipped a handspike.

frederic: yes, i have done my best for you. and why? it
was my duty under my indentures, and i am the slave of
duty. as a child i was regularly apprenticed to your
band. it was through an error — no matter, the mistake
was ours, not yours, and i was in honour bound by it.

samuel: an error? what error? (ruth rises and comes
forward)

frederic: i may not tell you; it would reflect upon my
well-loved ruth.

ruth: nay, dear master, my mind has long been gnawed by
the cankering tooth of mystery. better have it out at
once.

- doyly carte opera company lyrics

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