The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

You are here: Archive Home > The Mikado > Web Opera > Act II

No. 4: Trio (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo & Ko-Ko)
"Here's a how-de-do!"

MIDI File [16KB, 1' 11"] Sequenced by Colin Johnson

Yum-Yum.

Here's a how-de-do!
If I marry you,
When your time has come to perish,
Then the maiden whom you cherish
Must be slaughtered, too!
Here's a how-de-do!
Here's a how-de-do!

Nanki-Poo.

Here's a pretty mess!
In a month, or less,
I must die without a wedding!
Let the bitter tears I'm shedding
Witness my distress,
Here's a pretty mess!
Here's a pretty mess!

Click on picture to enlarge — Nanki-Poo (Philip Potter), Yum-Yum (Valerie Masterson) & Ko-Ko (John Reed), 1966

Ko-Ko.

Here's a state of things
To her life she clings!
Matrimonial devotion
Doesn't seem to suit her notion--
Burial it brings!
Here's a state of things!
Here's a state of things!

Yum-Yum & Nanki-Poo.	Ko-Ko.
With a passion that's intense I worship and adore, But the laws of common sense We oughtn't to ignore. If what he says is true, 'Tis death to marry you! Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do! Here's a pretty state of things! A pretty state of things!	With a passion that's intense You worship and adore, But the laws of common sense You oughtn't to ignore. If what I say is true, 'Tis death to marry you! Here's a pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do! Here's a pretty state of things! A pretty state of things!

Yum-Yum.	Here's a how-de-	do!
Nanki-Poo.		Here's a how-de-	do!
Ko-Ko.			Here's a how-de-do!

Yum-Yum & Nanki-Poo.	Ko-Ko.
For if what he says is true, I cannot, cannot marry you, Here's a pretty, pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do!	For if what I say is true, He cannot, cannot marry you, Here's a pretty, pretty state of things! Here's a pretty how-de-do!

Exit Yum-Yum.

Archive Home | The Mikado

Page revised 17 March, 2010