Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

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No. 8: Trio and Chorus

He is the Executioner

QUEEN

He is the executioner, and thinks it very odd, he Is asked to cut a head off when it hasn’t got a body!

ALL

He is the executioner, and thinks it very odd, he Is asked to cut a head off when it hasn’t got a body!

KING

Of old, my executioner indubitably said he’d Be sure a thing that had a head could always be beheaded.

ALL

Of old his executioner indubitably said he’d be sure a thing that had a head could always be beheaded. Ah! Ah Ah! Ah Ah!

QUEEN

With all this idle argument, my temper isn’t suited! If something isn’t done at once, you’ll all be executed!

ALL

Ah! Ah Ah Ah! All be executed! Ah! He is the executioner and thinks it very odd, he Is asked to cut a head off when it hasn’t got a body. If something isn’t done at once you’ll all be executed!

All go off at end of song.