[Chorus:]
What noise was that
waking us from our slumbers?
What to goodness caused such a clatter?
Hand joined to hand-- safety there is in numbers,
Let us find out what is the matter.
[Bantam:]
Help! Help! I'm almost dead!
[Chorus:]
Come! Come! Raise up his head!
[Wilder:]
Help! Help! I'm almost dead!
[Chorus:]
Lift up his Grace's head!
[Dorothy:]
Oh, father, what a dreadful sight,
To see you in so sad a plight!
[Chorus:]
Oh! what a sight!
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
And see, most shocking to relate!
His Grace has met the self-same fate!
[Chorus:]
Too shocking, quite!
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
Oh! what a night!
[Chorus:]
Daring a death to plunder?
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
Too shocking, quite!
[Chorus:]
What's coming next, we wonder?
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
Oh! what a night!
[Chorus:]
Oh! what a sight!
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
Too shocking,
shocking, quite!
[Chorus:]
Too shocking, quite!
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
Oh! what a....
[Chorus:]
Oh! what a night!
[Bantam:]
My money's safe!
[Chorus:]
How very strange!
[Bantam:]
Yes, not a penny missing!
[Wilder:]
Ah!
[Bantam:]
Not one!
[Wilder:]
Speak! What is it?
[Lurcher:]
Your Grace, I fear----
[Chorus:]
Ah!
[Lurcher:]
'As been robbed!
[Chorus:]
Oh!
[Sherwood:]
They've got the swag?
[Lurcher:]
Yes, taken ev'ry mag.
[Sherwood:]
See, not one shilling left!
[Wilder:]
Of ev'rything bereft!
[Bantam:]
The sum must be repaid at any cost!
[Chorus:]
Pray mention what amount your Grace has lost.
[Lurcher:]
The sum amounts to eighty pounds,
Perhaps a little more, sir,
And as a 'ost, I think you're bound
The money to restore, sir.
[Chorus:]
Pray take the guineas, he feels bound
The money to restore, sir.
[Wilder:]
Well then, I take the money as a loan.
[Dorothy, Lydia, Bantam & Sherwood:]
His Grace, we own,
Accepts the loan, with such a tone
That one would feel inclined to think the gold was all his own.
[Chorus:]
His Grace, we own,
Accepts the loan, with such a tone
That one would feel inclined to think the gold was all his own.
[Sherwood:]
And when his Grace returns this way
The money he is sure to pay.
[Wilder:]
I'm much afraid it won't be paid,
[Lurcher & Sherwood:]
Of course, the loan will be repaid!
[Dorothy:]
Hark! I hear the quarter chime!
[Lydia:]
What on earth can be the time?
[Dorothy:]
Midnight not long past be sure,
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
Why, the clock is striking four!
[Bantam:]
Once more to slumber!
[Chorus:]
We must all to bed again,
[Sherwood:]
Once more to slumber,
[Chorus:]
Till the sun shines through the pane,
[Dorothy, Lydia, Wilder & Sherwood:]
And the bright
Morning light Brings the day again.
And the bright Morning light
Brings the day again.
[Chorus:]
Brings us day again,
We must all to...
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
Hark! I hear the quarter chime!
[Chorus:]
We must all to...
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
Off to bed it is now time.
[Chorus:]
We must all to...
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
Then it is the half hour chime,
[Chorus:]
We must all to...
[Dorothy & Lydia:]
Yes, the clock is striking four,
[Sherwood & Bantam:]
Once more to slumber,
[Chorus:]
We must all to bed again,
[Sherwood & Bantam:]
Once more to slumber!
[Chorus:]
We must all to bed again,
[Dorothy, Lydia, Wilder & Sherwood:]
Till the bright
Morning light Brings the day again.
[Dorothy:]
Till the bright
Morning light Brings day again.
[Chorus:]
We must all to bed,
[Dorothy, Lydia, Wilder & Sherwood:]
Till the bright
Morning light Brings the day again.
[Ensemble:]
Till the bright
Morning light Brings day again.
Till the bright Morning light
Brings the day again.