The Mikado

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Overture
Overture (Mikado) Orchestra
Act I
If you want to know who we are 1 Nobles
A Wand'ring Minstrel I 2 Nanki-Poo, Nobles
Our Great Mikado, virtuous man 3 Pish-Tush, Nobles
Young man, despair 4 Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush
And have I journey'd for a month 4a Nanki-Poo, Pooh-Bah
Behold the Lord High Executioner 5 Ko-Ko, Nobles
As some day it may happen 5a Ko-Ko, Nobles
Comes a train of little ladies 6 School-Girls
Three little maids from school are we 7 Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Peep-Bo, School-Girls
So please you, Sir, we much regret 8 Pooh-Bah, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Peep-Bo, School-Girls
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted 9 Nanki-Poo, Yum-Yum
I am so proud 10 Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush
With aspect stern and gloomy stride (Finale Act I) 11 Mikado
Act II
Braid the raven hair 12 Pitti-Sing, School-Girls
The sun whose rays are all ablaze 13 Yum-Yum
Brightly dawns our wedding day 14 Nanki-Poo, Pish-Tush, Go-To, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing
Here's a how-de-do 15 Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum
Mi-ya Sa-ma 16 Mikado, Katisha, Chorus
A more humane Mikado 17 Mikado, Chorus
The criminal cried as he dropped him down 18 Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Pish-Tush, Chorus
See how the Fates their gifts allot 19 Mikado, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Pitti-Sing, Katisha
The flowers that bloom in the spring 20 Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing
Alone, and yet alive 21 Katisha
On a tree by a river 22 Ko-Ko
There is beauty in the bellow of the blast 23 Ko-Ko, Katisha
For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Finale Act II) 24 Mikado