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CHORUS: 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, oh!

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, oh! oh!
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, oh! oh! oh! oh!
On vase and jar,
On screen and fan.

NANKI: Gentlemen, I pray you tell me
Where a gentle maiden dwelleth,
Named YumYum, the ward of KoKo:
In pity speak, oh, speak, I pray you!

A NOBLE: Why, who are you who ask this question?

NANKI: Come gather round me, and I'll tell you.

By Gilbert and Sullivan
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The Mikado Act 1 No 1
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