The Authentic Gilbert & Sullivan Songbook

v) Plot Summaries Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old 1) Little Maid of Arcadee Trial By Jury 2) When First My Old, Old Love I Knew 3) When I, Good Friends, was call'd to the Bar 4) With a Sense of Deep Emotion 5) O Gentlemen, Listen I Pray The Sorcerer 6) There was, when Love and I 7) Welcome Joy! Adieu to Sadness! 8) My Name is John Wellington Wells 9) Dear Friends, take pity on my lot H.M.S Pinafore, or the Lass that loved a Sailor 10) We Sail the Ocean Blue 11) I'm called Little Buttercup 12) A Maiden fair to see 13) I am the Captain of the Pinafore 14) I am the Monarch of the Sea 15) When I was a lad 16) Never mind the Why and Wherefore 17) He is an Englishman The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty 18) O better far to Live and Die 19) Poor Wand'ring One 20) I am the very model of a modern Major General 21) When the Foeman bares his steel 22) When you had left our Pirate fold 23) When a Felon's not engaged in his employment 24) With cat-like tread Patience or Bunthorne's Bride 25) I cannot tell what this Love may be 26) If you want a receipt 27)I am alone, and unobserved 28) Prithee, pretty maiden 29) Sad is that woman's lot 30) A Magnet hung in a hardware shop 31) So go to him 32) When I go out of door Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri 33) Tripping hither, tripping thither 34) Loudly let the trumpet bray 35) The Law is the true embodiment 36) Spurn not the nobly born 37) When I went to the bar 38) When all night long a chap remains 39) When Britain really ruled the waves 40) O, foolish fay 41) Love, unrequited (Nightmare song) 42) If you go in Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant 43) If you give me your attention 44) Expressive glances 45) I am a Maiden 46) A Lady Fair 47) Would you know the kind of Maid 48) Whene'er I spoke 49) This helmet, I suppose The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu 50) A Wand'ring Minstrel, I 51) Behold the Lord High Executioner 52) As some day it may happen 53) Three little maids 54) So please you, Sir 55) For he's going to Marry Yum-Yum 56) The sun, whose rays 57) Brightly dawns our wedding day 58) Here's a How-de-do 59) Miya Sama 60) A More Humane Mikado 61) The flowers that bloom in the Spring 62) Alone, and yet alive! 63) On a tree by a river (Tit Willow) 64) There is beauty in the bellow of the blast Ruddigore, or the Witch's Curse 65) If somebody there chanced to be 66) I skipped d'ya see/Hornpipe 67) My boy, you may take it from me 68) Cheerily carols the lark over the cot 69) When the night wind howls 70) I once was a very abandoned person 71) My eyes are fully open The Yeoman and the Guard, or The Merryman and his Maid 72) When maiden loves 73) Is life a boon? 74) I have a song to sing, O! 75) I've Jive and Joke 76) Were I Thy Bride 77) Oh, A Private Buffoon 78) Strange Adventure! 79) A man who would woo a fair maid 80) When a wooer goes a-wooing The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria 81) In enterprise of martial kind 82) I stole the Prince 83) When a merry maiden marries 84) Then one of us will be Queen 85) Take a pair of sparkling eyes 86) Dance a Cachucha 87) There lived a king 88) I am a courtier grave and serious Utopia, Limited, or The Flowers of Progress 89) In ev'ry mental lore 90) Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses The Grand Duke, or The Statuatory Duel 91) So ends my dream