If you want to know who we are
Our great Mikado, virtuous man
Young man, despair, likewise go to
And have I journey'd for a month
Behold the Lord high executioner
As some day it may happen
Comes a train of little ladies
Three little maids from school
So please you, sir, we much regret
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted
(cont.) Disc 2. Braid the raven hair
The sun whose rays are all ablaze
Brightly dawns our wedding day
Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you
A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist
The criminal cried as he dropped him down
See how the fates their gifts allot
The flowers that bloom in the spring
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
