The Mikado

by W. S. Gilbert

Act I

• 1. If you want to know who we are (Nanki-Poo and Men)
• 2. A Wand'ring Minstrel I (Nanki-Poo and Men)
• 3. Our Great Mikado, virtuous man (Pish-Tush and Men)
• 4. Young Man Despair (Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)
• 5. Behold the Lord High Executioner (Ko-Ko and Men)
• 5a. As some day it may happen (Ko-Ko and Men)
• 6. Comes a train of little ladies (Girls)
• 7. Three little maids from school are we (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls)
• 8. So please you, Sir, we much regret (Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Girls)
• 9. Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted (Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo)
• 10. I am so proud (Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Pish-Tush)
• 11. With aspect stern and gloomy stride (Ensemble)

Act II

• 12. Braid the raven hair (Pitti-Sing and Girls)
• 13. The sun whose rays are all ablaze (Yum-Yum)
• 14. Brightly dawns our wedding day (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush)
• 15. Here's a how-de-do (Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko)
• 16. Mi-ya Sa-ma (Mikado, Katisha, Girls and Men)
• 17. A more humane Mikado (Mikado, Girls and Men)
• 18. The criminal cried as he dropped him down (Ko-ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Girls and Men)
• 19. See how the Fates their gifts allot (Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko and Katisha)
• 20. The flowers that bloom in the spring (Nanki-Poo, Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah)
• 21. Alone, and yet alive (Katisha)
• 22. Willow, tit-willow (Ko-Ko)
• 23. There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (Katisha and Ko-Ko)
• 24. For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Ensemble)

Act 1

SCENE. - Courtyard of Ko-Ko's Palace in Titipu. Japanese nobles discovered standing and sitting in attitudes suggested by native drawings.