ACT I - In front of the Barca Tarjum's palace at Lhassa in Tibet, showing the palace of the Dalai Lama in the distance.
- Prelude
- No. 1 - Song - Kinkaboo and Tramps
- "We're tramps and very glad to be without responsibility; no rent to pay, nor taxes; aye, our life is one long holiday..."
- No. 2 - Entrance of Grandees
- "Though strange in manner and in dress, it should not take you long to guess that we are men of Tibet who are dignitaries..."
- No. 3 - Song - Tarjum and Grandees
- "When I was young 'twas my delight to scare old ladies after night; a dog with can tied on him tight would fill my heart..."
- No. 4a - Chorus Entrance, with Mina and Tom
- "We are little Lhassa ladies, daughters of nobility. Each in jingling robes arrayed is, to denote her high degree..."
- No. 4b - Song - Mina Doma and Chorus
- "Love is oft a latent spark which kindles into flame, ere we have the time to hark to reason's better claim..."
- No. 5a - Entrance of Barclay
- No. 5b - Song - Barclay
- "I'm doing creation upon my vacation, my ticket reads all the way 'round; I've traveled all over, from Pekin to Dover, Australia and..."
- No. 6 - Song - Tom
- "Though by word you'll not confess it, still you love me, that I know; plainer yet than words express it, you have clearly told me so..."
- No. 7 - Song - Hulda and Chorus
- "Ay tank Ay travelled party good, an' now Ay vant to stop. Ay see das vorld, bae Yimminy, from bottom to hum top..."
- No. 8 - Song - Dorothy and Maids
- "Now once it transpired that three maids admired one man, and desired his heart to secure. One maid was audacious..."
- No. 9 - Trio - Barclay, Kinkaboo and Tarjum
- "Tell us not in words deceiving life is not a monster fake; that a man lives not for thieving, that the world's a jelly cake."
- No. 10 - Finale Act I
- "Now what's the row? What means your warning signal? The guard you've summoned and for what ... This bold presumptious foreigner..."
ACT II - The Courtyard of the Tarjum's palace and Lhassa prison. (Afternoon.)
- No. 11 - Prelude and Chorus
- "Tho' we live in jail, let us all regale ourselves with merry song, that the time we stay in this prison may not seem so very long..."
- No. 12 - Song - Barclay
- "In a cottage of stone which stood all alone in a garden surrounded by water, a maiden once dwelt, before whom there knelt..."
- No. 13 - Pantomime Music
- No. 14 - Song - Mina Doma and Girls
- "Sad is love all unrequited, so like a tender rose that fades unclaimed and sorrow blighted upon the vine it grows..."
- No. 15 - Song - Tarjum and Chorus
- "Before Columbus did his stunt, he didn't have a cent, and not a friend to help him hunt the coin to pay the rent..."
- No. 16a - Dance - Adoul and Hulda
- No. 16b - Dance - Adoul and Hulda
- No. 16c - Dance Grotesque - Adoul and Hulda
- No. 17a - Ensemble - Tarjum, Mina, Tom and Chorus
- "Young man, your answer I beseech. Don't hesitate but give it speech. If you refuse my daughter's hand..."
- No. 17b - Tibetan Prayer
- "O mighty Buddha, send we pray thy blessings on this bridal day, and let no angry cloud appear, or shadow fall around us here..."
- No. 17c - Tibetan Dance
- No. 18 - March Song - Dorothy and Chorus
- "My little brother Johnnie is a drummer in the band, in the army of the U.S.A., and the soldiers all take courage..."
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