Behold the Lord High Executioner! Simon Butteriss plays Ko-Ko in the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company's 2012 production of The Mikado. The full production is available on www.gsopera.tv
Behold The Lord High Executioner lyrics: [NOBLES] Behold the Lord High Executioner A personage of noble rank and title - A dignified and potent officer Whose functions are particularly vital! Defer, defer To the Lord High Executioner! Defer, defer To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord To the Lord High Executioner! [KO-KO] Taken from the county jail By a set of curious chances; Liberated then on bail On my own recognizances; Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances To a height that few can scale Save by long and weary dances; Surely, never had a male Under such like circumstances So adventurous a tale Which may rank with most romances [KO-KO & NOBLES] Taken from the county jail (Taken from the county jail) By a set of curious chances; (Liberated then on bail) Surely, never had a male (Surely, never had a male) So adventurous a tale (So adventurous a tale.) [NOBLES] Defer, defer To the Lord High Executioner! Defer, defer To the noble Lord To the noble Lord High Executioner! Bow down, bow down To the Lord High Executioner! Defer, defer To the noble, noble Lord To the High Executioner!
