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gilbert and sullivan - the lady of my love has caught me talking to another lyrics

[chorus, fairies]
tripping hither, tripping thither
n0body knows why or whither;
why you want us we don’t know
but you’ve summoned us, and so
enter all the little fairies
to their usual tripping measure!
to oblige you all our care is —
tell us, pray, what is your pleasure!

[verse, strephon]
the lady of my love has caught me talking to another —
[peers]
oh, fie! young strephon is a rogue!
[strephon]
i tell her very plainly that the lady is my mother
[peers]
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!
[strephon]
she won’t believe my statement, and declares we must be parted
because on a career of double+dealing i have started
then gives her hand to one of these, and leaves me broken+hearted
[peers]
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!

[verse, fairy queen]
ah, cruel ones, to separate two lovers from each other!
[fairies]
oh, fie! our strephon’s not a rogue!
[queen]
you’ve done him an injustice, for the lady is his mother!
[fairies]
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!
[verse, lord chancellor]
that fable perhaps may serve his turn as well as any other
i didn’t see her face, but if they fondled one another
and she’s but seventeen — i don’t believe it was his mother!
taradiddle, taradiddle —
[fairies]
tol lol lay!

[verse, earl tolloller]
i have often had a use
for a thorough+bred excuse
of a sudden (which is english for “repente”)
but of all i ever heard
this is much the most absurd
for she’s seventeen, and he is five+and+twenty!
[fairies/peers]
though/for she is seventeen
and he is four or five+and+twenty!
oh, fie! our strephon’s not/is a rogue!

[verse, earl mountararat]
now, listen, pray to me
for this paradox will be
carried, n0body at all contradicente
her age, upon the date
of his birth, was minus eight
if she’s seventeen, and he is five+and+twenty!
[fairies/peers]
if she is seventeen
and he only four or five+and+twenty!
[chorus, fairies]
to say she is his mother is an utter bit of folly!
oh, fie! our strephon’s not a rogue!
perhaps his brain is addled, and it’s very melancholy!
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!
i wouldn’t say a word that could be reckoned as injurious
but to find a mother younger than her son is very curious
and that’s a kind of mother that is usually spurious
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!
[overlayed, peers]
to say she is his mother is an utter bit of folly!
oh, fie! young strephon is a rogue!
perhaps his brain is addled, and it’s very melancholy!
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!
i wouldn’t say a word that could be reckoned as injurious
but to find a mother younger than her son is very curious
and that’s a kind of mother that is usually spurious
taradiddle, taradiddle, tol lol lay!

- gilbert and sullivan lyrics

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