PIRATES: With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal; In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel. No sound at all! We never speak a word; A fly's foot-fall Would be distinctly heard--
POLICE: (softly) Tarantara, tarantara!
PIRATES: So stealthily the pirate creeps, While all the household soundly sleeps.
Come, friends, who plough the sea, Truce to navigation; Take another station; Let's vary piracee With a little burglaree!
POLICE: (softly) Tarantara, tarantara!
SAMUEL: (distributing implements to various members of the gang) Here's your crowbar and your centrebit, Your life-preserver--you may want to hit! Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize, Take your file and your skeletonic keys.
POLICE: Tarantara!
PIRATES: With cat-like tread
POLICE: Tarantara!
PIRATES: in silence dread,
ALL (fortissimo): With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal; In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel. No sound at all! We never speak a word; A fly's foot-fall Would be distinctly heard!
Come, friends, who plough the sea, Truce to navigation; Take another station; Let's vary piracee With a little burglaree!
With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal, In silence dread, Our cautious way we feel.
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