For He Is An Orphan Boy

[SAMUEL]
For he is an orphan boy!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
He is! Hurrah for the orphan boy!

[MAJOR-GENERAL]
And it sometimes is a useful thing
To be an orphan boy.

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
It is! Hurrah for the orphan boy!
Hurrah for the orphan boy!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
We/They will away and married be!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
We/They will away and married be!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously,
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously,
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Oh, happy day, with joyous glee
We/They will away and married be!
Should it befall auspiciously,
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Should it befall auspiciously,

[SAMUEL, MAJOR-GENERAL & CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Her/Our sisters all will bridesmaids be!

[RUTH]
Oh, master, hear one word, I do implore you!
Remember Ruth, your Ruth, who kneels before you!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Yes, yes, remember Ruth, who kneels before you!

[FREDERIC]
Away, you did deceive me!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Away, you did deceive him!

[RUTH]
Oh, do not leave me!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Oh, do not leave her!

[FREDERIC]
Away, you grieve me!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Away, you grieve him!

[FREDERIC]
I wish you’d leave me!

[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
We wish you’d leave him!

Pray observe the magnanimity
We display to lace and dimity!
Never was such opportunity
To get married with impunity,
But we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity,
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity.

[CHORUS OF GIRLS]
Pray observe the magnanimity
They display to lace and dimity!
Never was such opportunity
To get married with impunity,
But they give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity,
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity.

[CHORUS OF GIRLS & PIRATES]
But they/we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity,
But they/we give up the felicity
Of unbounded domesticity,
Tho' a doctor of divinity,
A doctor of divinity,
A doctor, a doctor of divinity
Tho' a doctor of divinity
Resides in this vicinity
Tho' a doctor, a doctor,
Resides in this vicinity
This vicinity!

[END OF ACT 1]