Boatswain

Dick Deadeye, there.

Boatswain, well, Dick, we wouldn't go for to hurt any fellow creature's feelings, but you can't expect a chap with such a name as Dick Deadeye to be a popular character, now

can

you? dick no boatswain it's asking too much ain't it dick it is from such a face and form as mine the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination it is human nature i am resigned recitative buttercup looking down hatchway but tell me who's the youth whose faltering feet with difficulty bear him on his course that is the smartest lad in all the fleet ralph rackstraw buttercup ah that name remorse remorse enter ralph from hatchway madrigal ralph the nightingale sighed for the moon's bright ray and told his tale in his own melodious way he sang ah well-a-day all he sang ah well-a-day the lowly vale for the mountain vainly sighed to his humble wail the echoing hills replied they sang ah well-a-day all they sang ah well-a-day recitative i know the value of a kindly chorus but choruses yield little consolation when we have pain and sorrow too before us i love and love alas above my station buttercup aside he loves and loves a lass above his station all aside yes yes the lass is much above his station exit little buttercup ballad a maiden fair to see the pearl of minstrelsy a bud of blushing beauty for whom proud nobles sigh and with each other vie to do her menials duty all to do her menials duty a suitor lowly born with hopeless passion torn and poor beyond denying has dared for her to pine at whose exalted shrine a world of wealth is sighing all a world of wealth is sighing unlearned he in aught save that which love has taught for love had been his tutor o pity pity me our captain's daughter she and i that lowly suitor all and he that lowly suitor boatswain ah my poor lad you've climbed too high our worthy captain's child won't have nothing to say to a poor chap like you will she lads all no no dick deadeye oh no no captain's daughters don't marry foremost hands all recoiling from him shame shame boatswain dick deadeye them sentiments o yourn are a disgrace to our common natur rafe but it's a strange anomaly that the daughter of a man who hails from the quarter-deck may not love another who lays out on the four-eared arm for a man is but a man whether he hoists his flag at the main-truck or his slacks on the main-deck dick i it's a queer world rafe dick i have no desire to press hardly on you but such a revolutionary sentiment is enough to make an honest sailor shudder boatswain my lads our gallant captain has come on deck let us greet him as so brave an officer and so gallant a seaman deserves enter captain corcoran captain my gallant crew good morning all saluting sir good morning captain i hope you're all quite well all as before quite well and you sir captain i am in reasonable health and happy to meet you all once more all as before you do us proud sir song captain captain i am the captain of the pinafore all and a right good captain too you're very very good and be it understood i command a right good crew all we're very very good and be it understood he commands a right good crew captain though related to a pier i can hand reef and steer and ship a selvagee i am never known to quail at the fury of a gale and i'm never never sick at sea all what never captain no never all what never captain hardly ever all he's hardly ever sick at sea then give three cheers and one cheer more for the hardy captain of the pinafore captain i do my best to satisfy you all all and with you we're quite content captain you're exceedingly polite and i think it only right to return the compliment all we're exceedingly polite and he thinks it's only right to return the compliment capt bad language or abuse i never never use whatever the emergency though bother it i may occasionally say i never use a big big d all what never capt no never all what never capt hardly ever all hardly ever swears a big big d then give three cheers and one cheer more for the well-bred captain of the pin of four after song exeunt all but captain enter little buttercup recitative buttercup sir you are sad the silent eloquence of yonder tear that trembles on your eyelash proclaims sorrow far more deep than common confide in me fear not i am a mother capt yes little buttercup i'm sad and sorry my daughter josephine the fairest flower that ever blossomed on ancestral timber is sought in marriage by sir joseph porter our admiralty's first lord but for some reason she does not seem to tackle kindly to it buttercup with emotion ah poor sir joseph ah i know too well the anguish of a heart that loves but vainly but see here comes your most attractive daughter i go farewell exit captain a plump and pleasing person enter josephine twining some flowers which she carries in a small basket ballad josephine sorry her lot who loves too well heavy the heart that hopes but vainly sad are the sighs that own the spell uttered by eyes that speak too plainly heavy the sorrow that bows the head when love is alive and hope is dead sad is the hour when sets the sun dark is the night to earth's poor daughters when to the ark the wearied one flies from the empty waste of waters heavy the sorrow that bows the head when love is alive and hope is dead enter captain captain my child i grieve to see that you are a prey to melancholy you should look your best to-day for sir joseph porter k c b will be here this afternoon to claim your promised hand ah father your words cut me to the quick i can esteem reverence venerate sir joseph for he is a great and good man but oh i cannot love him my heart is already given captain it is then as i feared aloud given and to whom not to some gilded lordling josephine no father the object of my love is no lordling oh pity me for he is but a humble sailor on board your own ship capt impossible josephine yes it is true capt a common sailor oh fie josephine i blush for the weakness that allows me to cherish such a passion i hate myself when i think of the depth to which i have stooped in permitting myself to think tenderly of one so ignobly born but i love him i love him i love him weeps captain come my child let us talk this over in a matter of the heart i would not coerce my daughter i attach but little value to rank or wealth but the line must be drawn somewhere a man in that station may be brave and worthy but at every step he would commit solecisms that society would never pardon josephine oh i have thought of this night and day but fear not father i have a heart and therefore i love but i am your daughter and therefore i am proud though i carry my love with me to the tomb he shall never never know it capt you are my daughter after all but see sir joseph's barge approaches manned by twelve trusty oarsmen and accompanied by the admiring crowd of sisters cousins and aunts that attend him wherever he goes retire my daughter to your cabin take this his photograph with you it may help to bring you to a more reasonable frame of mind josephine my own thoughtful father exit josephine captain remains and ascends the poop deck barcarolle invisible over the bright blue sea comes sir joseph porter k c b wherever he may go bang bang the loud nine-pounders go shout o'er the bright blue sea for sir joseph porter k c b during this the crew have entered on tiptoe listening attentive to the song chorus of sailors sir joseph's barge is seen and is crowd of blushing beauties we hope he'll find us clean and attentive to our duties we sail we sail the ocean blue and are saucy ships of beauty we're sober sober men and true and attentive to our duty we're smart and sober men and quite devoid of fear are in all the royal inn none are so smart as we are

Aye, aye, sir.

Chief, Bosun's mate Bell reporting his orders, sir.

At ease, Chief.

That shouldn't be too difficult for you, should it? Sir? That state of being at ease.

The devil you don't.

This couldn't be clearer to you if it came in diagrams.

You are the Chief Bosun's mate on board this ship.

You run the deck division, you handle the rigging in and out, you supervise the heavy equipment, and there are eight or ten other cardinal duties you are responsible for.

Come along then, Nolan.

Lower the second lifeboat, Bosun.

This way, Mr. Nolan.

The boat was lowered, and we rowed over to the slaver.

The Chauncey had somehow slipped onto shore between the rocks and the USS Young.

Bosun's mate, Arthur Peterson, displayed an incredible act of courage and bravery when he swam approximately 150 feet in raging surf from the Young to the Chauncey to establish a rope line between the two ships.

The men from the Young began using the line to transfer to the relative safety of the Chauncey, and finally to dry land.

Some, dripping in fuel oil, could not keep their grasp on the line and fell into the surf.

There was only two men there.

Bosun called him up from the engine room and said, something's screwy here.

And said, you better get up here.

Well, he went up and the Japanese were coming in.

Come, of your Buttercup buy.

Boatswain.

Aye, Little Buttercup, and well called, for you're the rosiest, the roundest, and the reddest beauty in all Spithead.

Buttercup.

Red am I, and round and rosy? Maybe, for I have dissembled well.

But hark ye, my merry friend, hast ever thought that beneath a gay and frivolous exterior there may lurk a canker worm which is slowly but surely eating its way into one's very heart? Boatswain.

No, my lass, I can't say I've ever thought that.

Enter Dick Deadeye.

Dick Deadeye, there.

Boatswain, well, Dick, we wouldn't go for to hurt any fellow creature's feelings, but you can't expect a chap with such a name as Dick Deadeye to be a popular character, now can you? dick no boatswain it's asking too much ain't it dick it is from such a face and form as mine the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination it is human nature i am resigned recitative buttercup looking down hatchway but tell me who's the youth whose faltering feet with difficulty bear him on his course that is the smartest lad in all the fleet ralph rackstraw buttercup ah that name remorse remorse enter ralph from hatchway madrigal the nightingale sighed for the moon's bright ray and told his tale in his own melodious way he sang ah well-a-day all he sang ah well-a-day the lowly vale for the mountain vainly sighed to his humble wail the echoing hills replied they sang ah well-a-day all they sang ah well-a-day recitative i know the value of a kindly chorus but choruses yield little consolation when we have pain and sorrow too before us i love and love alas above my station buttercup he loves and loves a lass above his station all aside yes yes the lass is much above his station exit little buttercup ballad a maiden fair to see the pearl of minstrelsy a bud of blushing beauty for whom proud nobles sigh and with each other vie to do her menials duty all to do her menials duty a suitor lowly born with hopeless passion torn and poor beyond denying has dared for her to pine at whose exalted shrine a world of wealth is sighing all a world of wealth is sighing unlearned he in aught save that which love has taught for love had been his tutor o pity pity me our captain's daughter she and i that lowly suitor all and he that lowly suitor boatswain ah my poor lad you've climbed too high our worthy captain's child won't have nothing to say to a poor chap like you will she lads all no no dick deadeye oh no no captain's daughters don't marry foremost hands all recoiling from him shame shame boatswain dick deadeye them sentiments o yourn are a disgrace to our common natur rafe but it's a strange anomaly that the daughter of a man who hails from the quarter-deck may not love another who lays out on the four-eared arm for a man is but a man whether he hoists his flag at the main-truck or his slacks on the main-deck dick i ay it's a queer world rafe dick i have no desire to press hardly on you but such a revolutionary sentiment is enough to make an honest sailor shudder boatswain my lads our gallant captain has come on deck let us greet him as so brave an officer and so gallant a seaman deserves enter captain corcoran captain my gallant crew good morning all saluting sir good morning captain i hope you're all quite well all as before quite well and you sir captain i am in reasonable health and happy to meet you all once more all as before you do us proud sir song captain captain i am the captain of the pinafore all and a right good captain too you're very very good and be it understood i command a right good crew all we're very very good and be it understood he commands a right good crew capt though related to a pier i can hand reef and steer and ship a selvagee i am never known to quail at the fury of a gale and i'm never never sick at sea all what never capt no never all what never capt hardly ever all he's hardly ever sick at sea then give three cheers and one cheer more for the hearty captain of the pinafore captain i do my best to satisfy you all all and with you we're quite content captain you're exceedingly polite and i think it only right to return the compliment all we're exceedingly polite and he thinks it's only right to return the compliment capt bad language or abuse i never never use whatever the emergency though bother it i may occasionally say i never use a big big d all what never capt no never all what never capt hardly ever all hardly ever swears a big big d then give three cheers and one cheer more for the well-bred captain of the pin of four after song exeunt all but captain enter little buttercup recitative buttercup sir you are sad the silent eloquence of yonder tear that trembles on your eyelash proclaims sorrow far more deep than common confide in me fear not i am a mother capt yes little buttercup i'm sad and sorry my daughter josephine the fairest flower that ever blossomed on ancestral timber is sought in marriage by sir joseph porter our admiralty's first lord but for some reason she does not seem to tackle kindly to it buttercup with emotion ah poor sir joseph ah i know too well the anguish of a heart that loves but vainly but see here comes your most attractive daughter i go farewell exit captain a plump and pleasing person enter josephine twining some flowers which she carries in a small basket ballad josephine sorry her lot who loves too well heavy the heart that hopes but vainly sad are the sighs that own the spell uttered by eyes that speak too plainly heavy the sorrow that bows the head when love is alive and hope is dead sad is the hour when sets the sun dark is the night to earth's poor daughters when to the ark the wearied one flies from the empty waste of waters heavy the sorrow that bows the head when love is alive and hope is dead enter captain captain my child i grieve to see that you are a prey to melancholy you should look your best to-day for sir joseph porter k c b will be here this afternoon to claim your promised hand josephine ah father your words cut me to the quick i can esteem reverence venerate sir joseph for he is a great and good man but oh i cannot love him my heart is already given captain it is then as i feared aloud given and to whom not to some gilded lordling josephine no father the object of my love is no lordling oh pity me for he is but a humble sailor on board your own ship capt impossible josephine yes it is true capt a common sailor oh fie josephine i blush for the weakness that allows me to cherish such a passion i hate myself when i think of the depth to which i have stooped in permitting myself to think tenderly of one so ignobly born but i love him i love him i love him weeps captain come my child let us talk this over in a matter of the heart i would not coerce my daughter i attach but little value to rank or wealth but the line must be drawn somewhere a man in that station may be brave and worthy but at every step he would commit solecisms that society would never pardon josephine oh i have thought of this night and day but fear not father i have a heart and therefore i love but i am your daughter and therefore i am proud though i carry my love with me to the tomb he shall never never know it capt you are my daughter after all but see sir joseph's barge approaches manned by twelve trusty oarsmen and accompanied by the admiring crowd of sisters cousins and aunts that attend him wherever he goes retire my daughter to your cabin take this his photograph with you it may help to bring you to a more reasonable frame of mind josephine my own thoughtful father exit josephine captain remains and ascends the poop deck barcarolle invisible over the bright blue sea comes sir joseph porter k c b wherever he may go bang bang the loud nine-pounders go shout o'er the bright blue sea for sir joseph porter k c b during this the crew have entered on tiptoe listening attentive to the song chorus of sailors sir joseph's barge is seen and is crowd of blushing beauties we hope he'll find us clean and attentive to our duties we sail we sail the ocean blue and are saucy ships of beauty we're sober sober men and true and attentive to our duty we're smart and sober men and quite devoid of fear are in all the royal inn none are so smart as we are enter sir joseph's female relatives they dance round stage relatives gaily tripping lightly skipping flocks the maidens to the shipping sailors flags and guns and pennants dipping all the ladies love the shipping relatives sailors sprightly always rightly welcome ladies so politely sailors ladies who can smile so brightly sailors welcome most politely captain from poop now give three cheers i'll lead the way all hurrah hurrah hurrah hurray enter sir joseph with cousin hebe song sir joseph i am the monarch of the sea the ruler of the queen's navy whose praise great britain loudly chants cousin hebe and we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts relatives and we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts sir joseph when at anchor here i ride my bosom swells with pride and i snap my fingers at a foeman's taunts cousin heave and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts all and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts sir joseph but when the breezes blow i generally go below and seek the seclusion that a cabin grants cousin hebe and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts all and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts his sisters and his cousins whom he reckons up by dozens and his aunts song sir joseph when i was a lad i served a term as office-boy to an attorney's firm i cleaned the windows and i swept the floor and i polished up the handle of the big front door i polished up that handle so careful lee that now i am the ruler of the queen's davy chorus he polished c as office boy i made such a mark that they gave me the post of a junior clerk i served the writs with a smile so bland and i copied all the letters in a big round hand i copied all the letters in a hand so free that now i am the ruler of the queen's navy chorus he copied etc in serving writs i made such a name that an article clerk i soon became i wore clean collars and a brand-new suit for the pass examination at the institute and that pass examination did so well for me that now i am the ruler of the queen's navy chorus and that pass examination etc of legal knowledge i acquired such a grip that they took me into the partnership and that junior partner ship i ween was the only ship that i ever had seen but that kind of ship so suited me that now i am the ruler of the queen's navy chorus but that kind c i grew so rich that i was sent by a pocket-burrow into parliament i always voted at my party's call and i never thought of thinking for myself at all i thought so little they rewarded me by making me the ruler of the queen's navy chorus he thought so little c now landsmen all whoever you may be if you want to rise to the top of the tree if your soul isn't fettered to an office stool be careful to be guided by this golden rule stick close to your desks and never go to sea and you all may be rulers of the queen's navy chorus stick close etc sir joseph you've a remarkably fine crew captain corcoran captain it is a fine crew sir joseph sir joseph examining a very small midshipman a british sailor's a splendid fellow captain corcoran captain a splendid fellow indeed sir joseph sir joseph i hope you treat your crew kindly captain corcoran captain indeed i hope so sir joseph sir joseph never forget that they are the bulwark of england's greatness captain corcoran captain so i have always considered them sir joseph sir joseph no bullying i trust no strong language of any kind capt oh never sir joseph sir joseph what never capt well hardly ever sir joseph they are an excellent crew and do their work thoroughly without it sir joseph don't patronise them sir pray don't patronise them capt certainly not sir joseph sir joseph that you are their captain is an accident of birth i cannot permit these noble fellows to be patronised because an accident of birth has placed you above them and them below you captain i am the last person to insult a british sailor sir joseph sir joseph you are the last person who did captain corcoran desire that splendid seaman to step forward dick deadeye comes forward sir joseph no no the other splendid seaman capt ray frackstraw three paces to the front march sir joseph sternly if what capt i beg your pardon i don't think i understand you sir joseph if you please capt oh oh yes of course if you please rafe steps forward sir joseph you're a remarkably fine fellow rafe yes your honour sir joseph and a first-rate seaman i'll be bound rafe there's not a smarter topman in the navy your honour though i say it who shouldn't sir joseph not at all proper self-respect nothing more can you dance a hornpipe ralph no your honour sir joseph that's a pity all sailors should dance hornpipes i will teach you one this evening after dinner now tell me don't be afraid how does your captain treat you eh ralph a better captain don't walk the deck your honour all ay ay sir joseph good i like to hear you speak well of your commanding officer i dare say he don't deserve it but still it does you credit can you sing ralph i can hum a little your honour sir joseph then hum this at your leisure gives him manuscript music it is a song that i have composed for the use of the royal navy it is designed to encourage independence of thought and action in the lower branches of the service and to teach the principle that a british sailor is any man's equal excepting mine now captain corcoran a word with you in your cabin on a tender and sentimental subject captain ay ay sir joseph crossing boatswain in commemoration of this joyous occasion see that extra grog is served out to the ship's company at seven bells boatswain beg pardon if what your honour captain if what i don't think i understand you boatswain if you please your honour captain what sir joseph the gentleman is quite right if you please captain if you please exit sir joseph for i hold that on the seas the expression if you please a particularly gentlemanly tone implants cousin hebe and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts all and so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts exeunt sir joseph and relatives boatswain ah sir joseph's true gentleman courteous and considerate to the very humblest wraith true boatswain but we are not the very humblest sir joseph has explained our true position to us as he says a british seaman is any man's equal excepting his and if sir joseph says that is it not our duty to believe him all well spoke well spoke dick deadeye you're on a wrong tack and so is he he means well but he don't know when people have to obey other people's orders equality's out of the question all recoiling horrible horrible boatswain dick dead eye if you go for to infuriate this here ship's company too far i won't answer for being able to hold him in i'm shocked that's what i am ralph messmates my mind's made up i'll speak to the captain's daughter and tell her like an honest man of the honest love i have for her all ay ay rafe is not my love as good as another's is not my heart as true as another's have i not hands and eyes and ears and limbs like another all ay ay rafe true i lack birth boatswain you've a berth on board this very ship ralph well said i had forgotten that messmates what d'ye say do you approve my determination all we do dick deadeye i don't boatswain what's to be done with this here hopeless chap let us sing him the song that sir joseph has kindly composed for us perhaps it will bring this here miserable creetur to a proper state of mind glee ralph boatswain boatswain's mate and chorus a british tar is a soaring soul as free as a mountain bird his energetic fist should be ready to resist a dictatorial word his nose should pant and his lips should curl his cheeks should flame and his brow should furrow his bosom should heave and his heart should glow and his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow chorus his nose should pant etc his eyes should flash with an inborn fire his brow with scorn be wrung he never should bow down to a domineering frown or the tang of a tyrant tongue his foot should stamp and his throat should growl his hair should twirl and his face should scowl his eyes should flash and his breast protrude and this should be his customary attitude chorus his foot should stamp etc all dance off excepting rafe who remains leaning pensively against bulwark enter josephine from cabin josephine it is useless sir joseph's attentions nauseate me i know that he is a truly great and good man for he told me so himself but to me he seems tedious fretful and dictatorial yet his must be a mind of no common order or he would not dare to teach my dear father to dance a hornpipe on the cabin table ralph ralph rackstraw overcome by emotion ralph ay lady no other than poor ralph rackstraw josephine aside how my heart beats aloud and why poor ralph i am poor in the essence of happiness lady rich only in never-ending unrest in me there meet a combination of antithetical elements which are at eternal war with one another driven hither by objective influences thither by subjective emotions wafted one moment into blazing day by mocking hope plunge the next into the cimmerian darkness of tangible despair i am but a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms i hope i make myself clear lady josephine perfectly aside his simple eloquence goes to my heart oh if i dared but no the thought is madness aloud dismiss these foolish fancies they torture you but needlessly come make one effort ralph aside i will one aloud josephine indignantly sir i even though joe's armoury were launched at the head of the audacious mortal whose lips unhallowed by relationship dared to breathe that precious word yet would i breathe it once and then perchance be silent evermore josephine in one brief breath i will concentrate the hopes the doubts the anxious fears of six weary months josephine i am a british sailor and i love you josephine sir this audacity oh my heart my beating heart this unwarrantable presumption on the part of a common sailor common oh irony of the word crossing aloud oh sir you forget the disparity in our ranks rafe i forget nothing haughty lady i love you desperately my life is in your hand i lay it at your feet give me hope and what i lack in education and polite accomplishments that i will endeavour to acquire drive me to despair and in death alone i shall look for consolation i am proud and cannot stoop to implore i have spoken and i await your word josephine you shall not wait long your proffered love i haughtily reject go sir and learn to cast your eyes on some village maiden in your own poor rank they should be lowered before your captain's daughter duet josephine and ralph josephine refrain audacious tar your suit from pressing remember what you are and whom addressing i'd laugh my rank to scorn in union holy were he more highly born or i more lowly rafe proud lady have your way unfeeling beauty you speak and i obey it is my duty i am the lowliest tar that sails the water and you proud maiden are my captain's daughter aside my heart with anguish torn bows down before her she laughs my love to scorn yet i adore her repeat refrain ensemble then exeunt josephine into cabin ralph recit can i survive this overbearing or live a life of mad despairing my proffered love despised rejected no no it is not to be expected messmates ahoy come here come here enter sailors hebe and relatives all ay ay my boy what cheer what cheer now tell us pray without delay what does she say what cheer what cheer wraith to cousin hebe the maiden treats my suit with scorn rejects my humble gift my lady she says i am ignobly born and cuts my hopes adrift my lady all o cruel one dick dead eye she spurns your suit oho oho i told you so i told you so sailors and relatives shall we submit or we but slaves shall they submit or they but slaves love comes alike to high and low britannia's sailors rule the waves and shall they stoop to insult no i you must admit you are but slaves a lady she oh ho oh ho you lowly toilers of the waves she spurns you all i told you so i told you so wraith my friends my leave of life i'm taking for oh my heart my heart is breaking when i am gone o prithee tell the maiden that as i died i loved her well all turning away weeping of life alas his leave he's taking for ah his faithful heart is breaking when he is gone we'll surely tell the maid that as he died he loved her well during chorus boatswain has loaded pistol which he hands to rafe rafe be warned my messmates all who love and rank above you for josephine i fall puts pistol to his head all the sailors stop their ears enter josephine on deck josephine ah stay your hand i love you all oh stay your hand she loves you rafe incredulously loves me josephine loves you all yes yes oh yes she loves you ensemble sailors and relatives and josephine o joy o rapture unforeseen for now the sky is all serene the god of day the orb of love has hung his ensign high above the sky is all ablaze with wooing words and loving song we'll chase the lagging hours along and if i find the maiden coy and if we find the maiden coy i'll murmur forth decorous joy we'll murmur forth decorous joy in dreamy rondelays dick deadeye he thinks he's won his josephine but though the sky is now serene a frowning thunderbolt above may end their ill-assorted love which now is all ablaze our captain ere the day is done will be extremely down upon the wicked men who art employ'd to make his josephine less coy in many various ways exit dick josephine this very night hebe with bated breath ralph and muffled oar josephine without a light hebe as still as death ralph will steal the shore josephine a clergyman ralph shall make us one boatswain at half-past ten josephine and then we can ralph return for none boatswain can part them then all this very night c dick deadeye appears at hatchway dick deadeye forbear nor carry out the scheme you've planned she's a lady you a foremost hand remember she's your gallant captain's daughter and you the meanest slave that crawls the water all back vermin back nor mock us back vermin back you shock us exit dick deadeye let's give three cheers for the sailor's bride who casts all thought of rank aside who gives up home and fortune too for the honest love of a sailor true for a british tar is a soaring soul as free as a mountain bird his energetic fist should be ready to resist a dictatorial word his foot should stamp and his throat should growl his hair should twirl and his face should scowl his eyes should flash and his breast protrude and this should be his customary attitude pose general dance act one act two of h m s pinafore or the last that loved a sailor by w s gilbert same scene night awning removed moonlight captain discovered singing on poop-deck and accompanying himself on a mandolin little buttercup seated on quarter-deck gazing sentimentally at him song captain fair moon to thee i sing bright regent of the heavens say why is everything either at sixes or at sevens i have lived hitherto free from breath of slander beloved by all my crew a really popular commander but now my kindly crew rebel my daughter to attar is partial sir joseph storms and sad to tell he threatens a court-martial fair moon to thee i sing bright regent of the heavens say why is every thing either at sixes or at sevens buttercup how sweetly he carols forth his melody to the unconscious moon of whom is he thinking of some high-born beauty it may be who is poor little buttercup that she should expect his glance to fall on one so lowly and yet if he knew if he only knew captain coming down ah little buttercup still on board that's not quite right little one it would have been more respectable to have gone on shore at dusk buttercup true dear captain but the recollection of your sad pale face seemed to chain me to the ship i would fain see you smile before i go captain ah little buttercup i fear it will be long before i recover my accustomed cheerfulness for misfortunes crowd upon me and all my old friends seem to have turned against me oh no do not say all dear captain that were unjust to one at least capt true for you are stanch to me aside if ever i gave my heart again methinks it would be to such a one as this aloud i am touched to the heart by your innocent regard for me and were we differently situated i think i could have returned it but as it is i fear i can never be more to you than a friend buttercup i understand you hold aloof from me because you are rich and lofty and i poor and lowly but take care the poor bumboat woman has gipsy blood in her veins and she can read destinies captain destinies buttercup there is a change in store for you captain a change buttercup aye be prepared duet little buttercup and captain buttercup things are seldom what they seem skim milk masquerades as cream high lows pass as patent leathers jackdaw strut in peacock's feathers captain puzzled very true so they do buttercup black sheep dwell in every fold all that glitters is not gold storks turn out to be but logs bulls are but inflated frogs captain puzzled so they be frequently buttercup drops the wind and stops the mill turbot is ambitious brill gild the farthing if you will yet it is a farthing still captain puzzled yes i know that is so though to catch your drift i'm striving it is shady it is shady i don't see at what you're driving mystic lady mystic lady aside stern conviction o'er me stealing that the mystic lady's dealing in oracular revealing better cop aside stern convictions o'er him stealing that the mystic lady's dealing in oracular revealing yes i know that is so captain though i'm anything but clever i could talk like that for ever once a cat was killed by care only brave deserve the fair very true so they do captain wink as often good as nod spoils the child who spares the rod thirsty lambs run foxy dangers dogs are found in many mangers buttercup frequently i agree paw of cat that chestnut snatches worn out garments show new patches only count the chick that hatches men are grown-up catchy catchies buttercup yes i know that is so aside though to catch my drift he's striving i'll dissemble i'll dissemble when he sees at what i'm driving let him tremble let him tremble ensemble though a mystic tone you borrow you will learn the truth with sorrow i shall hear to-day and gone to-morrow yes i know that is so at the end exit little buttercup melodramatically capt incomprehensible as her utterances are i nevertheless feel they are dictated by a sincere regard for me but to what new misery is she referring time alone can tell enter sir joseph sir joseph captain corcoran i am much disappointed with your daughter in fact i don't think she will do captain she won't do sir joseph sir joseph i'm afraid not the fact is that although i have urged my suit with as much eloquence as is consistent with an official utterance i have done so hitherto without success how do you account for this capt really sir joseph i hardly know josephine is of course sensible of your condescension sir joseph she naturally would be capt but perhaps your exalted rank dazzles her sir joseph you think it does i can hardly say but she is a modest girl and her social position is far below your own it may be that she feels she is not worthy of you sir joseph that is really a very sensible suggestion and displays more knowledge of human nature than i had given you credit for captain see she comes if your lordship would kindly reason with her and assure her officially that it is a standing rule at the admiralty that love levels all ranks her respect for an official utterance might induce her to look upon your offer in its proper light sir joseph it is not unlikely i will adopt your suggestion but soft she is here let us withdraw and watch our opportunity enter josephine from cabin first lord and captain retire scene the hours creep on apace my guilty heart is quaking oh that i might retrace the step that i am taking its folly it were easy to be showing what i am giving up and whither going on the one hand papa's luxurious home hung with ancestral armour and old brasses carved oak and tapestry from distant rome rare blue and white venetian finger-glasses rich oriental rugs luxurious sofa pillows and everything that isn't old from gillows and on the other a dark and dingy room in some back street with stuffy children crying where organs yell and clacking housewives fume and clothes are hanging out all day a-drying with one cracked looking-glass to see your face in and dinner served up in a pudding basin a simple sailor lowly born unlettered and unknown who toils for bread from early morn till half the night has flown no golden rank can he impart no wealth of house or land no fortune save his trusty heart an honest brown right hand and yet he is so wondrous fair that love for one so passing rare so peerless is his manly beauty were little else than solemn duty o god of love and god of reason say which of you twain shall my poor heart obey sir joseph and captain inter sir joseph madam it has been represented to me that you are appalled by my exalted rank i desire to convey to you officially my assurance that if your hesitation is attributable to that circumstance it is uncalled for josephine oh then your lordship is of opinion that married happiness is not inconsistent with discrepancy in rank sir joseph i am officially of that opinion josephine that the high and lowly may be truly happy together provided that they truly love one another sir j madam i desire to convey to you officially my opinion that love is a platform upon which all ranks meet josephine i thank you sir joseph i did hesitate but i will hesitate no longer aside he little thinks how eloquently he has pleaded his rival's cause trio first lord captain and josephine capt never mind the why and wherefore love can level ranks and therefore though his lordship's station's mighty though stupendous be his brain though your tastes are mean and flighty and your fortune poor and plain capt and sir joseph ring the merry bells on board ship rend the air with warbling wild for the union of his lordship with a humble captain's child captain for a humble captain's daughter josephine for a gallant captain's daughter sir joseph and a lord who rules the water josephine aside and a tar who ploughs the water all let the air with joy be laden rend with songs the air above for the union of a maiden with the man who owns her love sir joseph never mind the why and wherefore love can level ranks and therefore though your nautical relation alluding to captain in my set could scarcely pass though you occupy a station in the lower middle class captain and sir joseph ring the merry bells on board ship rend the air with warbling wild for the union of my lordship with the humble captain's child for a humble captain's daughter josephine for a gallant captain's daughter sir joseph and a lord who rules the water josephine aside and a tar who ploughs the water all let the air with joy be laden rend with songs the air above for the union of a maiden with the man who owns her love josephine never mind the why and wherefore love can level ranks and therefore i admit the jurisdiction ably have you played your part you have carried firm conviction to my hesitating heart captain answered joseph ring the merry bells on board ship rend the air with warbling wild for the union of my lordship with a humble captain's child captain for a humble captain's daughter josephine for a gallant captain's daughter sir joseph and a lord who rules the water josephine aside and a tar who ploughs the water aloud let the air with joy be laden captain and sir joseph ring the merry bells on board ship josephine for the union of a maiden captain and sir joseph for her union with his lordship all rend with songs the air above for the man who owns her love exit josephine captain sir joseph i cannot express to you my delight at the happy result of your eloquence your argument was unanswerable sir joseph captain corcoran it is one of the happiest characteristics of this glorious country that official utterances are invariably regarded as unanswerable exit sir joseph capt at last my fond hopes are to be crowned my only daughter is to be the bride of a cabinet minister the prospect is elysian during this speech dick deadeye has entered dick deadeye capt capt dead eye you hear don't recoiling from him dick dead eye oh don't shrink from me captain i'm unpleasant to look at and my name's agin me but i ain't as bad as i seem capt what would you with me dick deadeye mysteriously i've come to give you warning captain indeed do you propose to leave the navy then dick deadeye no no you misunderstand me listen duet captain and dick deadeye dick deadeye kind captain i've important information sing hey the kind commander that you are about a certain intimate relation sing hey the merry maiden and the tar both the merry maiden and the tar captain good fellow in conundrums you are speaking sing hey the mystic sailor that you are the answer to them vainly i am seeking sing hey the merry maiden and the tar the merry maiden and the tar can captain your young lady is a sighing sing hey the simple captain that you are this very night with rackstraw to be flying sing hey the merry maiden and the tar the merry maiden and the tar captain good fellow you have given timely warning sing hey the thoughtful sailor that you are i'll talk to master rackstraw in the morning sing hey the cat o nine tails and the tar producing a cat both the merry cat o nine tails and the tar capt dick deadeye i thank you for your warning i will at once take means to arrest their flight this boat cloak will afford me ample disguise so envelops himself in a mysterious cloak holding it before his face dick deadeye ha ha they are foiled foiled foiled enter crew on tiptoe with ralph and boatswain meeting josephine who enters from cabin on tiptoe with bundle of necessaries and accompanied by little buttercup ensemble carefully on tiptoe stealing breathing gently as we may every step with caution feeling we will softly steal away captain stamps all much alarmed goodness me why what was that dick silent be it was the cat all reassured it was it was the cat captain producing cat and nine tails they're right it was the cat all pull ashore in fashion steady hymen will defray the fair for a clergyman is ready to unite the happy pair stamp as before and cord all goodness me why what was that dick deadeye silent be again the cat all it was again that cat captain aside they're right it was the cat captain throwing off cloak hold all start pretty daughter of mine i insist upon knowing where you may be going with these sons of the brine for my excellent crew though foes they could thump any are scarcely fit company my daughter for you now hark at that do though foes we could thump any we are scarcely fit company for a lady like you proud officer that haughty lip uncurl vain man suppress that supercilious sneer for i have dared to love your matchless girl a fact well known to all my messmates here capt oh horror ralph and josephine i humble poor and lowly born the meanest in the port division the butt of epauletted scorn the mark of quarter-deck derision have desire to raise my wormy eyes above the dust to which you'd mould me in manhood glorious pride to rise i am an englishman behold me all he is an englishman boatswain he is an englishman for he himself has said it and it's greatly to his credit that he is an englishman all that he is an englishman boatswain for he might have been a russian a french or turk or prussian or perhaps italian all or perhaps italian boatswain but in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations he remains an englishman all for in spite of all temptations etc captain trying to repress his anger in uttering a reprobation to any british tar i try to speak with moderation but you have gone too far i'm very sorry to disparage a humble foremost lad but to seek your captain's child in marriage why damn it's too bad during this cousin heave and female relatives have entered all shocked oh captain yes damn it's too bad all oh captain and dick deadeye yes damn it's too bad during this sir joseph has appeared on poop-deck he is horrified at the bad language hebe did you hear him did you hear him oh the monster overbearing don't go near him don't go near him he is swearing he is swearing sir joseph my pain and my distress i find it not easy to express my amazement my surprise you may learn from the expression of my eyes capt my lord one word the facts are not before you the word was injudicious i allow but hear my explanation i implore you and you will be indignant too i vow sir joseph i will hear of no defence attempt none if you're sensible that word of evil sense is wholly indefensible go ribald get you hence to your cabin with celerity this is the consequence of ill-advised asperity exit captain disgraced followed by josephine all this is the consequence of ill-advised asperity sir joseph for i'll teach you all ere long to refrain from language strong for i haven't any sympathy for ill-bred taunts he that no more have his sisters nor his cousins nor his aunts all for he is an englishman c sir joseph now tell me my fine fellow for you are a fine fellow rafe yes your honour sir joseph how came your captain so far to forget himself i am quite sure you had given him no cause for annoyance wraith please your honour it was thuswise you see i'm only a topman a mere foremast hand sir joseph don't be ashamed of that your position as a topman is a very exalted one ralph well your honour love burns as brightly in the forecastle as it does on the quarter-deck and josephine is the fairest bud that ever blossomed upon the tree of a poor fellow's wildest hopes enter josephine she rushes to ralph's arms josephine darling sir joseph horrified ralph she is the figurehead of my ship of life the bright beacon that guides me into my port of happiness that the rarest the purest gem that ever sparkled on a poor but worthy fellow's trusting brow all very pretty very pretty sir joseph insolent sailor you shall repent this outrage seize him two marines seize him and handcuff him josephine oh sir joseph spare him for i love him tenderly sir joseph pray don't i will teach this presumptuous mariner to discipline his affections have you such a thing as a dungeon on board all we have digged adai they have sir joseph then load him with chains and take him there at once octet ralph farewell my own light of my life farewell for crime unknown i go to a dungeon cell josephine i will atone in the meantime farewell and all alone rejoice in your dungeon cell sir joseph a bone a bone i'll pick with this sailor fell let him be shown at once at once to his dungeon cell boatswain dick deadeye and cousin hebe he'll hear no tone of the maiden he loves so well no telephone communicates with his cell buttercup mysteriously but when is known the secret i have to tell wide will be thrown the door of his dungeon cell for crime unknown he goes to a dungeon cell wraith is led off in custody sir joseph my pain and my distress again it is not easy to express my amazement my surprise again you may discover from my eyes all how terrible the aspect of his eyes buttercup hold ere upon your loss you lay much stress a long-concealed crime i would confess song buttercup a many years ago when i was young and charming as some of you may know i practised baby farming oh now this is most alarming when she was young and charming she practised baby farming a many years ago two tender babes i nursed one was of low condition the other upper crust a regular patrician all explaining to each other now this is the position one was of low condition the other a patrician a many years ago buttercup oh bitter is my cup how ever could i do it i mixed those children up and not a creature knew it however could you do it some day no doubt you'll rue it although no creature knew it so many years ago buttercup in time each little waif forsook his foster-mother the well-born babe was rafe your captain was the other ah they left their foster-mother the one was rafe our brother our captain was the other ah many years ago sir joseph then i am to understand that captain corcoran and rafe were exchanged in childhood's happy hour that rafe is really the captain and the captain is rafe buttercup that is the idea i intended to convey officially sir joseph and very well you have conveyed it buttercup ay ay your honour sir joseph dear me let them appear before me at once ralph enters as captain captain as a common sailor josephine rushes to his arms josephine my father a common sailor captain it is hard is it not my dear sir joseph this is a very singular occurrence i congratulate you both to ralph desire that remarkably fine seaman to step forward rafe corcoran three paces to the front march capt if what rafe if what i don't think i understand you capt if you please sir joseph the gentleman is quite right if you please ralph oh if you please captain steps forward sir joseph to captain you are an extremely fine fellow captain yes your honour sir joseph so it seems that you were ralph and ralph was you captain so it seems your honour sir joseph well i need not tell you that after this change in your condition a marriage with your daughter will be out of the question capt don't say that your honour love levels all ranks sir joseph it does to a considerable extent but it does not level them as much as that handing josephine to rafe here take her sir and mind you treat her kindly rafe and josephine o bliss o rapture captain and buttercup o rapture o bliss sir joseph sad my lot and sorry what shall i do i cannot live alone hebe fear nothing while i live i'll not desert you i'll soothe and comfort your declining days sir joseph no don't do that hebe yes but indeed i'd rather sir joseph resigned to-morrow morn our vows shall all be plighted three loving pairs on the same day united quartette josephine hebe ralph and deadeye o joy o rapture unforeseen the clouded sky is now serene the god of day the orb of love has hung his ensign high above the sky is all ablaze with wooing words and loving song we'll chase the lagging hours along and if he finds the maiden coy will murmur forth decorous joy in dreamy rondelay captain for he's the captain of the pinafore all and a right good captain too captain and though before my fall i was captain of you all i'm a member of the crew all although before his fall etc captain i shall marry with a wife in my humble rank of life turning to buttercup and you my own are she i must wander to and fro but wherever i may go i shall never be untrue to thee all what never capt no never all what never capt hardly ever all hardly ever be untrue to thee then give three cheers and one cheer more for the former captain of the pinafore buttercup for he loves little buttercup dear little buttercup though i could never tell why but still he loves buttercup poor little buttercup sweet little buttercup i all for he loves etc sir joseph i'm the monarch of the sea and when i've married thee to eve i'll be true to the devotion that my love implants he then good-bye to his sisters and his cousins and his aunts especially his cousins whom he reckons up by dozens his sisters and his cousins and his aunts all for he is an englishman and he himself has said it and it's greatly to his credit that he is an englishman

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