If you want to know who we are
Gilbert and Sullivan * Track #1 On The Mikado
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Album The Mikado
- #1If you want to know who we are
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- #2A Wand’ring Minstrel I
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- #3Our Great Mikado, virtuous man
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- #4Young man, despair
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- #5And Have I Journey’d for a Month
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- #6Behold the Lord High Executioner
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- #7I’ve Got a Little List
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- #8Comes a train of little ladies
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- #9Three little maids from school are we
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- #10So please you, Sir, we much regret
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- #11Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted
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- #12I Am So Proud
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- #13With Aspect Stern and Gloomy Stride
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- #14Your Revels Cease! Assist Me, All Of You!
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- #15The Hour of Gladness is Dead and Gone
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- #16Braid the Raven Hair, Weave the Supple Tresses
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- #17The sun whose rays are all ablaze
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- #18Brightly dawns our wedding day
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- #19Here’s a how-de-do
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- #20Mi-ya Sa-ma
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- #21A More Humane Mikado Never Did In Japan Exist
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- #22The criminal cried as he dropped him down
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- #23See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot
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- #24The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la
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- #25Alone, and yet alive
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- #26On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit
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- #27There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
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- #28Finale Act II
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If you want to know who we are by Gilbert and Sullivan
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Gilbert and SullivanProduced by
Richard D’Oyly CarteWrited by
W.S. GilbertAbout
The intro to the operetta. From a plot perspective, the song serves merely to illustrate that we are in Japan – something which, given that the play actually has very little to do with the customs of Japan, might not necessarily be obvious.
If you want to know who we are Lyrics
[NOBLES]
If you want to know who we are
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On many a vase and jar —
On many a screen and fan
We figure in lively paint:
Our attitude's queer and quaint —
You're wrong if you think it ain't
Ooooh!
If you think we are worked by strings
Like a Japanese marionette
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette
Perhaps you suppose this throng
Can't keep it up all day long?
If that's your idea, you're wrong
Ooooh! Ooooh!
If that's your idea, you're wrong
If you want to know who we are
We are gentlemen of Japan:
On vase and jar
On screen and fan
On many, many, many, many
Many, many, many, many, a jar
Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh!
On vase and jar
On screen and fan
[NANKI-POO]
Gentlemen, I pray you tell me
Where a gentle maiden dwelleth
Named Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko?
In pity speak, oh speak I pray you!
[NOBLE #1]
Why, who are you who ask this question?
[NANKI-POO]
Come gather round me, and I'll tell you
If you want to know who we are Q&A
Who wrote If you want to know who we are's ?
If you want to know who we are was written by W.S. Gilbert.
Who produced If you want to know who we are's ?
If you want to know who we are was produced by Richard D’Oyly Carte.
When did Gilbert and Sullivan release If you want to know who we are?
Gilbert and Sullivan released If you want to know who we are on Sat Mar 14 1885.