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[Part I, Sung]
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate glass!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pass!
[SAMUEL]
For today our pirate 'prentice
Rises from indenture freed;
Strong his arm, and keen his scent is,
He's a Pirate now indeed!
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Here’s good luck to Fredric’s ventures
Fredric’s out of his indentures
[SAMUEL]
Two and twenty, now he’s rising,
And alone he’s fit to fly,
Which we’re bent on signalizing
With unusual revel-ry
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Here’s good luck to Fredric’s ventures
Fredric’s out of his indentures.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES & SAMUEL]
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate glass!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pass!
[Part II, Dialogue]
[PIRATE KING]
Yes, Frederic, from to-day you rank as a full-blown member of our band.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Hurrah!
[FREDERIC]
My friends, I thank you all, from my heart, for your kindly wishes. Would that I could repay them as they deserve!
[PIRATE KING]
What do you mean?
[FREDERIC]
Today I am out of my indentures, and today I leave you for ever.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
What?
[PIRATE KING]
But this is quite unaccountable; a keener hand at scuttling a Cunarder or cutting out a P. & O. never shipped a handspike!
[FREDERIC]
Yes, I have done my best for you. And why? It was my duty under my indentures, and I am the slave of duty. As a child I was regularly apprenticed to your band. It was through an error -- no matter, the mistake was ours, not yours, and I was in honor bound by it.
[SAMUEL]
An error? What error?
[FREDERIC]
I may not tell you; it would reflect upon my well-loved Ruth.
[RUTH]
Nay, dear master, my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery. Better have it out at once.
Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry was written by W.S. Gilbert.
Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry was produced by Richard D’Oyly Carte & The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Gilbert and Sullivan released Pour, Oh Pour the Pirate Sherry on Wed Dec 31 1879.