PIRATES: (very Loud)

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!



Come, Friends, Who Plough The Sea,

Truce To Navigation;

Take Another Station;

Let's Vary Piracee

With A Little Burglaree!



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,



(Enter KING, FREDERIC And RUTH)

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.