NANKI: A wand'ring minstrel I
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs, and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby!
My catalogue is long,
Through ev'ry passion ranging
And to your humours changing
I tune my supple song!
I tune my supple song!

Are you in sentimental mood?
I'll sigh with you,
Oh, sorrow!
On maiden's coldness do you brood?
I'll do so, too
Oh, sorrow sorrow!
I'll charm your willing ears
With songs of lovers' fears,
While sympathetic tears
My cheeks bedew
Oh, sorrow sorrow!

But if patriotic sentiment is wanted,
I've patriotic ballads cut and dried;
For where'er our country's banner may be planted,
All other local banners are defied!
Our warriors in serried ranks assembled,
Never quail or they conceal it if they do
And I shouldn't be surprised if nations trembled
Before the mighty troops, the troops of Titipu!

CHORUS: We shouldn't be surprised if nations trembled, trembled with alarm
Before the mighty troops, the troops of Titipu!

NANKI: And if you call for a song of the sea,
We'll heave the capstan round,
With a yeo heaveho, for the wind is free,
Her anchor's atrip and her helm's alee,
Hurrah for the homeward bound!

CHORUS: Yeoho, heaveho,
Hurrah for the homeward bound!

NANKI: To lay aloft in a howling breeze
May tickle a landsman's taste,
But the happiest hour a sailor sees
Is when he's down
At an inland town,
With his Nancy on his knees, yeoho!
And his arm around her waist!

CHORUS: Then man the capstan off we go,
As the fiddler swings us round,
With a yeo heaveho,
And a rum below,
Hurrah for the homeward bound! With a yeo heaveho,
And a rum below,
Yeoho, heaveho,
Yeoho, heaveho, heaveho, heaveho, yeoho!

NANKI: A wand'ring minstrel I
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs, and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby!
And dreamy lulla, lullaby, lullaby!

By Gilbert & Sullivan
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Mikado 2. A wand'ring minstrel I
Lyrics
Nanki-Poo
Tenor
Bass
Piano RH
Piano LH