[00:00.75]The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), 
[00:01.75]Act I: What ought we to do? (Edith, Kate, Girls, Mabel, Frederic) (1987 Digital）
[00:02.47]EDITH
[00:02.57]What ought we to do,
[00:04.41]Gentle sisters, say?
[00:06.35]Propriety, we know,
[00:08.43]Says we ought to stay;
[00:10.24]While sympathy exclaims,
[00:12.18]"Free them from your tether
[00:14.22]Play at other games--
[00:16.64]Leave them here together."
[00:17.99]
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[00:19.22]KATE
[00:20.61]Her case may, any day,
[00:22.64]Be yours, my dear, or mine.
[00:24.67]Let her make her hay
[00:26.79]While the sun doth shine.
[00:28.93]Let us compromise
[00:30.65](Our hearts are not of leather):
[00:32.83]Let us shut our eyes
[00:35.35]And talk about the weather.
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[00:37.46]GIRLS
[00:37.96]Yes, yes, let's talk about the weather.
[00:41.17]
[00:41.54](Chattering chorus)
[00:45.03]How beautifully blue the sky,
[00:45.95]The glass is rising very high,
[00:47.06]Continue fine I hope it may,
[00:48.42]And yet it rained but yesterday.
[00:49.82]To-morrow it may pour again
[00:51.24](I hear the country wants some rain),
[00:52.64]Yet people say, I know not why,
[00:54.04]That we shall have a warm July.
[00:55.40]To-morrow it may pour again
[00:56.75](I hear the country wants some rain),
[00:58.16]Yet people say, I know not why,
[00:59.50]That we shall have a warm July.
MABEL
[01:04.02]Did ever maiden wake
[01:05.72]From dream of homely duty,
[01:08.82]To find her daylight break
[01:11.59]With such exceeding beauty?
[01:15.29]Did ever maiden close
[01:17.83]Her eyes on waking sadness,
[01:21.43]To dream of such exceeding gladness?
[01:28.98]
[01:29.26]FREDERIC
[01:29.60]Ah, yes!?ah, yes! this is exceeding gladness
[01:31.85]
[01:32.27]GIRLS
[01:34.08]How beautifully blue the sky, etc.

[01:35.31]The glass is rising very high,
[01:37.67]Continue fine I hope it may,
[01:39.12]And yet it rained but yesterday.
[01:40.54]To-morrow it may pour again
[01:41.94](I hear the country wants some rain),
[01:43.32]Yet people say, I know not why,
[01:44.79]That we shall have a warm July.
[01:46.21]To-morrow it may pour again
[01:47.60](I hear the country wants some rain),
[01:49.02]Yet people say, I know not why,
[01:50.45]That we shall have a warm July.
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[01:53.17]SOLO
[01:54.29]
[01:54.74](During this, GIRLS continue their chatter pianissimo as before, but listening intently all the time.)
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[01:55.34]FREDERIC
[01:55.90]Did ever pirate roll
[02:00.33]His soul in guilty dreaming,
[02:01.76]And wake to find that soul
[02:02.51]With peace and virtue beaming?
[02:06.56]The glass is rising very high,
[02:07.83]Continue fine I hope it may,
[02:10.69]And yet it rained but yesterday.
[02:11.96]To-morrow it may pour again
[02:13.41](I hear the country wants some rain),
[02:16.68]Yet people say, I know not why,
[02:17.82]That we shall have a warm July.
[02:19.22]To-morrow it may pour again
[02:20.93](I hear the country wants some rain),
[02:22.55]Yet people say, I know not why,
[02:24.11]That we shall have a warm July.
[02:35.81]Lyric by wechat chuanxi6