Parody of I am the Captain of the Pinafore from H.M.S. Pinafore

[Thanatos]

More Gilbert and Sullivan at last, this time from HMS Pinafore (and not a patter song); original lyrics and MIDI at http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pinafore/web_opera/pin04.html.

CAPTAIN:   I am the Captain of the Cloudwalker!

CREW:   And a right good captain too!

CAPTAIN:   You’re very, very good:

   At last I’ve understood

   That a ship requires a crew.

CREW:   We’ve very, very good:

   At last he’s understood

   That a ship requires a crew.

CAPTAIN:   I cannot abide Lord Fear.

   I can skilfully steer –

   No jelly-legged babe!

   I’m always blessed with wind

   Of a favourable kind,

   For I’ve never lost my astrolabe!

CREW:   What, never?

CAPTAIN:   No, never!

CREW:   What, never?

CAPTAIN:   Hardly ever!

CREW:   Hardly ever lost his astrolabe!

   Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,

   For the very careful Captain Nemanor!

   Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,

   For the careful Captain Nemanor!

CAPTAIN:   I do my best to keep all strangers off –

CREW:   And with that we’re quite content.

CAPTAIN:   But if they are quite polite,

   Then I think it only right

   To return the compliment.

CREW:   But if they are quite polite,

   Then he thinks it only right

   To return the compliment.

CAPTAIN:   Within the Game’s domain

   I constantly maintain

   My strict impartiality,

   So, though Lord Fear incense

   Me to a rage intense,

   I never aid the Pow’rs That Be –

CREW:   What, never?

CAPTAIN:   No, never!

CREW:   What, never?

CAPTAIN:   Hardly ever!

CREW:   Hardly ever aids the Pow’rs That Be –

   Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,

   For the staunchly neutral Captain Nemanor!

   Then give three cheers, and one cheer more,

   For the neutral Captain Nemanor!