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No. 12: I stand on my authority

Sung by Lady Maud, Sir Cecil, and Lord Carnaby

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Lady M.:

I stand on my authority,
And wonder what you mean!

Lord C.:

You're still in your minority,
You're hardly seventeen.

Lady M.:

Lord Carnaby, in verity,
Your rudeness pains me much.

Sir C.:

You're Lady Maud's posterity,
Behave yourself as such.

Lady Maud:		Sir Cecil:		Lord Carnaby:
	Your grandma in charity		Your grandma in charity		My grandma in charity
	concludes you must be mad!		concludes you must be mad!		concludes I must be mad!
	Now be that moral rarity		Now be that moral rarity		My grandma in charity
	a good obedient lad!		a good obedient lad!		concludes I must be mad!
	I stand on my authority		She stands on her authority		I stand on my authority
	and wonder what you mean.		and wonders what you mean.		and wonder what you mean.
	I stand on my authority		She stands on her authority		I stand on my authority
	and wonder what you mean!		and wonders what you mean!		and wonder what you mean!
	So strange a meeting ne'er
	was seen for sure
	as I'm alive his grandma is
	seventeen and he is sixty-five,
	Why sure as I'm alive,		So strange a meet-		So strange a meet-
	why sure as I'm alive		ing ne'er was seen		ing ne'er was seen
	his grandma is seventeen		so strange a meet-		so strange a meet-
	and he is sixty-five		ing ne'er was seen		ing ne'er was seen
			For		For
	She is seventeen and he is sixty-five!		she is seventeen and he is sixty-five!		she is seventeen and he is sixty-five!

	Should he respectful homage pay		Should he respectful homage pay		Should I respectful homage pay!
	Should he respectful homage pay!		Should he respectful homage pay!
					Should I respectful homage pay,
	Should he make me his will obey!		Should he make me his will obey!		Should she make me her will obey!
			As her proprietor,		As her proprietor,
			as her proprietor!		as her proprietor!
	Should he make his will obey!
			As her proprietor!		As her proprietor!
	Should he make me his will obey
	As my proprietor
	Should he make me his will obey		So strange a meet-		Should she make me her will obey
	his will obey		ing ne'er was seen		her will obey
	should he respectful homage pay,		should she respect-		should I respectful homage pay,
	should he respectful homage pay,		ful homage pay,		respectful homage pay,
	to me to me No!		to him to him No!		to her to her No!
	So strange a meeting ne'er was seen		So strange a meeting ne'er was seen		So strange a meeting ne'er was seen
	for sure as I'm alive		for sure as I'm alive		for sure as I'm alive
	his Grandma is seventeen and he		his Grandma is seventeen and he		my Grandma is seventeen and I
	is sixty-five!		is		am
	he is sixty-five,		sixty five,		I am sixty five,
	So strange a meeting ne'er		So strange a meeting ne'er		So strange a meeting ne'er,
	was seen		was seen		ne'er was seen
	So strange a meeting		So strange a meeting		So strange a meeting
	ne'er was seen,		ne'er was seen,		ne'er was seen,
	for sure his Grandma is		for sure his Grandma is		for sure my Grandma is
	seventeen and he is sixty-five.		seventeen and he is sixty-five.		seventeen and I am sixty-five.

(Dame Cherry's picture has gradually uncovered at end of Music.)

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