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No. 2 - Quintette - "The Mandarin"
| Wai Ho & Ah Wen: | Of noble kin is the mandarin, With manners smooth as a jasper pin, So courtly. |
| Chorus: | So courtly. |
| Yu Sam & Me Koui: | A double chin has the mandarin And his manly form is far from thin, It's portly. |
| Chorus: | It's portly. |
| Li: | For he is the mandalin |
| Chorus: | ...dalin |
| Li: | He lulee our happy valley, And I Am Li, His sly And wily Plivate Secletaly. |
| Chorus: | For he is the mandarin, darin, A girl would like to marry, That's why We try To buy Up Li, His Private Secretary. |
| Wai Ho & Ah Wen: | He didn't begin as a mandarin, Examinations he had to win Competing. |
| Chorus: | Competing. |
| Yu Sam & Me Koui: | And he sav'd his skin did the mandarin By having the answers sewn within His pleating. |
| Chorus: | His pleating. |
| Li: | But though he's a mandalin |
| Chorus: | ...dalin |
| Li: | His money accounts don't tally, For I Am Li His sly And wily Plivate Secletaly. |
| Chorus: | For he is the mandarin, darin, That makes us fetch and carry, That's why We try To buy Up Li, His Private Secretary. |
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