W.S. Gilbert - I Am So Proud lyrics

[POOH-BAH] I am so proud If I allowed My family pride To be my guide I'd volunteer To quit this sphere Instead of you In a minute or two But family pride Must be denied And set aside And mortified And mortified [KO-KO] My brain it teams With endless schemes Both good and new For Titipu For Titipu; But if I flit The benefit That I'd diffuse The town would lose! Now every man To aid his clan Should plot and plan As best he can [PISH-TUSH] I heard one day A gentleman say That criminals who Are cut in two Can hardly feel The fatal steel And so are slain Are slain without much pain If this is true It's jolly for you; Your courage screw To bid us adieu [POOH-BAH] I am so proud If I allowed My family pride To be my guide I'd volunteer To quit this sphere Instead of you In a minute or two [KO-KO] My brain it teams With endless schemes Both good and new For Titipu, For Titipu; But if I flit The benefit That I'd diffuse The town would lose! Now every man To aid his clan Should plot and plan, As best he can. [PISH-TUSH] I heard one day A Gentleman say, That criminals who Are cut in two can hardly feel The fatal steel, And so are slain Are slain Without much pain If this is True, It's jolly for you; Your courage screw To bid us adieu. [KO-KO] And so Although I'm ready to go Yet recollect 'Twere disrespect Did I neglect To thus effect This aim direct So I object — [POOH-BAH] And so Although I wish to go And greatly pine To brightly shine And take the line Of a hero fine With grief condign I must decline [PISH-TUSH] And go And show Both friend and foe How much you dare I'm quite aware It's your affair Yet I declare I'd take your share But I don't much care [POOH-BAH] I must decline I must decline I must decline I must decline I must decline I must decline [KO-KO] So I object So I object So I object So I object So I object So I object [PISH-TUSH] I'd take your share But I don't much care I'd take your share But I don't much care I'd take your share But I don't much care, much care I don't much care I don't much care [ALL] To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock A short, sharp shock, a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison And awaiting the sensation From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!