ACT I - A Public Garden in Tokio.
- No. 1 - Opening Chorus
- "Today we come from far and near to sing a bridal song..."
- No. 2 - Song - Betsy Lincoln
- "When you're there you will declare that not a city can compare with Tokio..."
- No. 3 - Conspirators' Duet - General Satake and Ivan
- "We're a pair of desperadoes and our speciality is crime..."
- No. 4 - Song - Oloto and Chorus
- "Oh, Love's a spiteful fairy, capricious and contrary, and sad affairs he makes..."
- No. 5 - Quartet - Stitch, Birdie, Rusty and Kidder
- "We left our poor but happy home, many, many moons ago..."
- No. 6 - Duet - Oloto and Julian
- "Mellow moon, away up there in the sky above, tell me, is there anywhere such a thing as love?..."
- No. 7 - Entrance of Kow Tow
- "Oh golden sun in azure sea, far above our revelry, send down thy warm and mellow light..."
- No. 8 - Song - Kow Tow and Chorus
- "For the Mayor's job and a chance to rob I've always longed, you know..."
- No. 9 - Entrance of Princes
- "There are coming swiftly towards us strange aristocrats from the west..."
- No. 10 - Trio - Kow Tow, Birdie and Kidder
- "I am forced to confess that I scarcely would guess that you were so infernally heartless..."
- No. 11 - Finale Act I
- "He must die... He must die... He must die... He must die... What a fall from on high, Kow Tow! ..."
ACT II - Outside Sing Song, a Japanese Jail near Tokio Harbor.
- No. 12 - Opening Chorus
- "In the ground soon buried he'll be. Prostrate now with sorrow are we. Let the Tom-tom bang..."
- No. 13 - Duet - Rusty and Birdie
- "One day a trav'ling circus came to visit Joliet, and Josie Green, a servant girl, two passes chanced to get..."
- No. 14 - Song - Oloto
- "A nightingale perched in the branches above once noticed beneath him two victims of love..."
- No. 15 - Betsy and Chorus
- "Oh, I'm ev'ry inch a sailor and I love the raging sea ... When the ocean breezes blow..."
- No. 16 - Grotesque Song and Dance - Kidder
- "A boy climbed up an apple tree, the farmer man he did not see..."
- No. 17 - Trio - Kow Tow, Kidder and Rusty
- "Let us pack ev'ry grip and steal on board the ship, and leave trouble and worry behind us..."
- No. 18 - Duet - Kow Tow and Madam Stitch
- "When you're courting and the joys of love assail you, you're happy and contented as can be..."
- No. 19 - Song - Kidder and Chorus
- "When but a bashful boy I rather liked the fair sex, the lengthy hair sex, the real hot air sex..."
- No. 20 - Finale Act II
- "Tokio, Tokio, with your flowers rare redolent with perfume and with fragrance in the air..."
The lyrics for item no. 4 were written by Arthur Burrows, and those for item 9 were by Robert L. Beecher.
The lyrics for items 10, 15 and 16 were by Arthur Gillespie, and those for item 14 were by M. E. Rourke.
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