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No. 3: Chorus and Song (Colonel)
"The soldiers of our Queen...
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery"
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March. Enter Officers of Dragoon Guards, led by Major.
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| The soldiers of our Queen Are linked in friendly tether; Upon the battle scene They fight the foe together. There ev'ry mother's son Prepared to fight and fall is; The enemy of one The enemy of all is! The enemy of one The enemy of all is! |
Enter Colonel.
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| If you want a receipt for that popular mystery, Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon, |
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| Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! | |
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| Take all the remarkable people in history, Rattle them off to a popular tune. |
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| Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! | |
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| The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory - Genius of Bismarck devising a plan - The humour of Fielding (which sounds contradictory) - Coolness of Paget about to trepan - The science of Jullien, the eminent musico - Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne - The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault - Style of the Bishop of Sodor and Man - The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery - Narrative powers of Dickens and Thackeray - Victor Emmanuel - peak-haunting Peveril - Thomas Aquinas, and Doctor Sacheverell - Tupper and Tennyson - Daniel Defoe - Anthony Trollope and Mister Guizot! |
| Colonel. | Dragoons. |
| Ah! Take of these elements all that is fusible, Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible - Set them to simmer, and take off the scum, And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum! |
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, is the residuum! |
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| If you want a receipt for this soldier-like paragon, Get at the wealth of the Czar (if you can) - The family pride of a Spaniard from Aragon - Force of Mephisto pronouncing a ban - A smack of Lord Waterford, reckless and rollicky - Swagger of Roderick, heading his clan - The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky - Grace of an Odalisque on a divan - The genius strategic of Caesar or Hannibal - Skill of Sir Garnet in thrashing a cannibal - Flavour of Hamlet - the Stranger, a touch of him - Little of Manfred (but not very much of him) - Beadle of Burlington - Richardson's show - Mister Micawber and Madame Tussaud! |
| Colonel. | Dragoons. |
| Ah! Take of these elements all that is fusible, Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible - Set them to simmer, and take off the scum, And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum! |
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, A Heavy Dragoon, a Heavy Dragoon, is the residuum! |
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