Richard D'Oyly Carte - If you want to know who we are lyrics

[NOBLES] 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 Ooooh! 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 Ooooh! Ooooh! 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 Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! Ooooh! On vase and jar On screen and fan [NANKI-POO] Gentlemen, I pray you tell me Where a gentle maiden dwelleth Named Yum-Yum, the ward of Ko-Ko? In pity speak, oh speak I pray you! [NOBLE #1] Why, who are you who ask this question? [NANKI-POO] Come gather round me, and I'll tell you