W.S. Gilbert - A more humane Mikado lyrics

[MIKADO] A more humane Mikado never Did in Japan exist To nobody second I'm certainly reckoned A true philanthropist It is my very humane endeavour To make, to some extent Each evil liver A running river Of harmless merriment My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! All prosy dull society sinners Who chatter and bleat and bore Are sent to hear sermons From mystical Germans Who preach from ten till four The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies All desire to shirk Shall, during off-hours Exhibit his powers To Madame Tussaud's waxwork The lady who dyes a chemical yellow Or stains her grey hair puce Or pinches her figure Is backed like a n***a With permanent walnut juice The idiot who, in railway carriages Scribbles on window-panes We only suffer To ride on a buffer In Parliamentary trains My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! [Chorus] His object all sublime He will achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! [MIKADO] The advertising quack who wearies With tales of countless cures His teeth, I've enacted Shall all be extracted By terrified amateurs The music-hall singer attends a series Of ma**es and fugues and "ops" By Bach, interwoven With Spohr and Beethoven At cla**ical Monday Pops The billiard sharp who any one catches His doom's extremely hard — He's made to dwell — In a dungeon cell On a spot that's always barred And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls! My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! [Chorus] His object all sublime He will achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment!