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2025 Broadway
The Pirates of Penzance the Musical - Oh, Better Far To Live And Die Lyrics
The song is written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert.
PIRATE KING:
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart
Away to the cheating world go you
Where pirates all are well to do
But I'll be true to the song I sing
And live and die a Pirate King!
For I am a Pirate King!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King
I am a Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES:
You are! Hurrah for the Pirate King!
PIRATE KING:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES:
It is! Hurrah for the Pirate King
CHORUS OF PIRATES & PIRATE KING:
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES:
He is a Pirate King
He is! Hurrah for the pirate king
And it is, it is, a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King
It is! Hurrah for the Pirate King!
PIRATE KING:
When I sally forth to seek my prey
I help myself in a royal way;
I sink a few more ships, it's true
Than a well-bred monarch ought to do!
But many a king on a first-class throne
If he wants to call his crown his own
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever I do
For I am a Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES & PIRATE KING:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King
PIRATE KING:
I am a Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES:
You are! Hurrah for the Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES & PIRATE KING:
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
CHORUS OF PIRATES:
It is! Hurrah for the Pirate King
CHORUS OF PIRATES & PIRATE KING:
Hurrah for the Pirate King!
RUTH: (spoken)
Oh, take me with you!
I cannot live if I am left behind
FREDERIC: (spoken)
Ruth, I will be quite candid with you.
You are very dear to me, as you know,
But I must be circumspect.
You see, you are considerably older than I.
A lad of twenty-one usually looks for a wife of seventeen
RUTH: (spoken)
A wife of seventeen!
You will find me a wife of a thousand!
FREDERIC: (spoken)
No, but I shall find you a wife of forty-seven,
And that is quite enough.
Ruth, tell me candidly and without reserve:
Compared with other women – are you beautiful?
RUTH: (spoken)
I have been told so, dear master
FREDERIC: (spoken)
Ah, but lately?
RUTH: (spoken)
Oh, no; years and years ago
FREDERIC: (spoken)
What do you think of yourself?
RUTH: (spoken)
It is a delicate question to answer,
But I think I am a fine woman
FREDERIC: (spoken)
Thank you, Ruth. I believe you,
For I am sure you would not practice on my inexperience.
I wish to do the right thing,
And if -– I say if –- you are really a fine woman,
Your age shall be no obstacle to our union!
(A chorus of girls is heard in the distance)
Hark! Surely I hear voices!
Who has ventured to approach our all but inaccessible lair?
Can it be Custom House?
No, it does not sound like Custom House
RUTH: (spoken)
Confusion! it is the voices of young girls!
If he should see them I am lost
FREDERIC: (spoken)
By all that’s marvelous,
A bevy of beautiful maidens!
RUTH: (spoken)
Lost! lost! lost!
FREDERIC: (spoken)
How lovely, how surpassingly lovely is the plainest of them!
What grace – what delicacy – what refinement!
And Ruth – Ruth told me she was beautiful!
Review: The Pirates of Penzance the Musical Lyrics
The Pirates of Penzance the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
Pour, O Pour The Pirate Sherry
When Frederic Was A Little Lad
Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
Oh, False One, You Have Deceived Me!
Climbing Over Rocky Mountain
Stop, Ladies, Pray!
Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
Poor Wandering One
What Ought We To Do?
How Beautifully Blue The Sky
Stay, We Must Not Lose Our Senses
Hold, Monsters!
I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate
Oh, Dry The Glistening Tear
Then Frederic
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