ruddigore 45 So it really doesnt matter

PATTER-TRIO. ñ ROBIN, DESPARD, AND MARGARET.



ROB.My eyes are fully open to my awful situation ñ

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!

DES.So it really doesn't matter ñ

MAR.So it really doesn't matter ñ

ALL.So it really doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!



MAR.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!

DES.Her opinion doesn't matter ñ

ROB.Her opinion doesn't matter ñ

ALL.Her opinion doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!



DES.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 ñ

Who could give me good advice when he discovered I was erring

(Which is just the very favour which on you I am conferring),

My existance 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!

ROB.If it is it doesn't matter ñ

MAR.If it is it doesn't matter ñ

ALL.If it is it doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!

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[nclysander]

Vocally, the Margaret totally bests the two men in this song, but as a whole it is really well done.

[jlf180]

about a half a year ago, during the National Conventions, my ..puter got sick, I was replacing the trio with Sarah Palin, McCain & Obama

maybe next time around

[jlf180]

Yes! That's Vincent Price as Despard.

I'm slowly posting the entire musical. Once I've got em all uploaded I'll set it all into a single playlist. (this is segment 45!)

Maybe I should post it to google video in 2 parts:

act1 and act2.

[jlf180]

good thing I didn't., google video is g-gone.

[MossfloweRussa]

"This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn't generally heard and if it is it doesn't matter!"

[crippmeister]

IT'S NOT A MUSICAL IT'S AN OPERETTA! Sorry, it does annoy me when people call G&S musicals. They're so much more.

[Poet2916]

Thoroughly Modern Millie stole from this in "Speed Test" GRR.

This is so much better.

[TheZacula]

@cullmurr Troll harder, friend.

[cullmurr]

@TheZacula oi ! oi ! Oi ! meine kleine scheisskopf, scheisskopf I forget the tune, but you get the idea. I think it translates as " Oh, my goodness gracious, you are such a little shit head, shit head ! "What fun !

[cullmurr]

@TheZacula There is no version of this song in " Pirates" What are you, some kind of schmegeggi ?

[cullmurr]

@annea1b Sorry, but the production of "Pinafore"in the same series knocked "Ruddigore" into a cocked hat ! 'od's bodkins, so it did, sor !

Savoyards RULE !!!!

[cullmurr]

@crippmeister I share your outrage !

[cullmurr]

ah the beautiful, glorious and fabulous SIR Vincent Price.What a jewel, a precious gem

[Beagleloverbaby]

I just memorized the whole thing...so it really does n`t matter...Yeeehhhh Buddyyy

[Vadergeek]

Vincent Price never really catches up after his breath.

[thebassetthound]

The "OTHER" actor is Keith Michell - a great (Aussie) stage and screen performer!