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	H.M.S. Pinafore Song No. 10 -- Act I A BRITISH TAR   GLEE   RALPH, BOATSWAIN, CARPTENTER. A British tar is a soaring soul, As free as a mountain bird, His energetic fist should be ready to resist A dictatorial word. RALPH BOATSWAIN CARPENTER     His nose   His nose should should pant,   pant, and and his lip should curl,   his lip should   His cheeks should flame, curl, His cheeks should and his     brow should furl,   flame, and his brow   His bosom should heave, should furl, And his bosom and his heart should glow,   should heave, and his heart And his first And his fist be protrude, be be   ever ready for a ever ready for a And his fist ever knock-down blow. knock-down blow. ready for a knock-down blow.   ALL. His nose should pant and his lip should curl, His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl, His bosom should heave and his heart should glow, And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow. RALPH, BOATSWAIN, CARPTENTER. His eyes should flash with an inborn fire, His brow with scorn be wrung; He never should bow down to a domineering frown, Or the tang of a tyrant tongue. RALPH BOATSWAIN CARPENTER     His foot   His foot should stamp, should stamp, and and his throat should growl,   his throat should   His hair should twirl, growl, His hair should and his face should scowl,   twirl, and his face   His eyes should flash, should scowl, And his eyes and his breast protrude,   should flash, and his breast And this should be his And this should be his protrude, And this his customary attitude. customary attitude. customary attitude.   ALL. His foot should stamp, and his throat should growl, His hair should twirl, and his face should scowl; His eyes should flash, and his breast protrude, And this should be his customary attitude, his attitude, his attitude, his attitude. (pose). [All dance off excepting Ralph, who remains, leaning pensively against bulwark.]   Anzeigen: