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A More Human Mikado (from "The Mikado") - The King's Singers (国王歌手合唱团)
Written by：William Schwenck Gilbert/Sir Arthur Sullivan
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 painted with vigour
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

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 masses and fugues and "ops"

By Bach interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven
At classical 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
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

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