Gilbert & Sullivan Ruddigore "My Eyes Are Fully Open (It Really Doesn't Matter)" Martyn Green 

Gilbert and Sullivan
Ruddigore
My Eyes Are Fully Open (It Really Doesn't Matter)
Martyn Green, Richard Watson, Ann Drummond-Grant
ROBIN:
My eyes are fully open to my awful situation- I shall go at once to Roderic and make him an
oration. I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten
moral senses, and I don't care twopence-halfpenny
for any consequences.
Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the
dagger, but a martyr may indulge a little
pardonable swagger, and a word or two of
compliment my vanity would flatter, but I've got to
die tomorrow, so it really doesn't matter!
DESPARD: So it really
doesn't matter-
MARGARET: So it really
doesn't matter-
MARGARET:
If were not a little mad and generally silly,
I should give you my advice upon the subject,
willy-nilly; I should show you in a moment how
to grapple with the question, and you'd really be
astonished at the force of my suggestion. On the subject I shall write you a most valuable
letter, full of excellent suggestions when I feel a
little better, but at present I'm afraid I am as mad
as any hatter, so I'll keep 'em to myself, for my
opinion doesn't matter!
DESPARD:
If I had been so lucky as to have a steady brother
who could talk to me as we are talking now to one
another-who could give me good advice when he
discovered I was erring (which is just the very favor
which on you I am conferring), my existence would
have made a rather interesting idyll, and I might
have lived and died a very decent indiwiddle. This
particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn't
generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter!
Patter tunes are common enough nowadays, but they were first introduced in Gilbert and Sullivan productions.
Gilbert & Sullivan Ruddigore "My Eyes Are Fully Open (It Really Doesn't Matter)" Martyn Green