| Your servant! |
| Your servant!
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| Indeed I’m not your servant --
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| Although you give me less than servant’s pay --
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| I’m a free and independent employe
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| …(sigh) employee.
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| Because I’m a woman
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| You think, like ev’ry woman
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| I have to be a slave or concubine.
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| You conceited, self-indulgent libertine! |
| …(sigh)
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| libertine!
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| How I wished I called him that!
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| Right to his face! |
| Libertine!
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| And while we’re on the subject, sire,
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| There are certain goings on around this place
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| That I wish to tell you I do not admire:
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| I do not like polygamy
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| Or even moderate bigamy
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| I realize
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| That in your eyes
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| That clearly makes a prig o' me.
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| But I am from a civilized land called Wales!
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| Where men like you are locked in county jails!
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| In your pursuit of pleasure, you
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| Have mistresses who treasure you
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| They have no ken of other men
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| Beside whom they can measure you
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| A flock of sheep and you’re the only ram
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| No wonder you’re the wonder of Siam!
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| I’m rather glad I didn’t say that…
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| Not with the women right there… and the children
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| The children, the children,
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| I’ll not forget the children,
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| No matter where I go I’ll always see
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| Those little faces looking up at me…
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| At first, when I started to teach,
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| They were shy and remained out of reach,
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| But lately I’ve thought
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| One or two have been caught
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| By a word I have said
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| Or a sentence I’ve read
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| And I’ve heard an occasional question
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| That implied, at least, a suggestion
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| That the work I’ve been trying to do
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| Was beginning to show with a few…
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| That Prince Chululongkorn
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| Is very like his father.
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| He’s stubborn-but inquistitive and smart…
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| I must leave this place before they break my heart
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| I must leave this place before they break my heart!
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| Goodness! |
| I had no idea it was so late.
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| Shall It tell you what I think of you?
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| You’re spoiled!
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| You’re a conscientious worker
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| But your spoiled.
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| Giving credit where it’s due
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| There is much I like in you
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| But it’s also very true
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| That your spoiled!
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| Everybody’s always bowing to the King
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| Everybody has to grovel to the King.
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| By your Buddha you are blessed
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| By your ladies you’re caressed,
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| But the one who loves you best is the King.
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| All that bowing and kow-towing
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| To remind you of your royalty,
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| I find a most disgusting exhibition.
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| I wouldn’t ask a Siamese cat
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| To demonstrate his loyalty
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| By taking this ridiculous position
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| How would you like it if you were a man
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| Playing the part of a toad.
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| Crawling around on your elbows and knees.
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| Eating the dust of the road…
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| Toads! |
| Toads! |
| All of your people are toads!
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| Yes, Your Majesty;
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| No, Your Majesty.
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| Tell us how low to go, Your Majesty;
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| Make some more decrees, Your Majesty,
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| Don’t let us up off out knees, Your Majesty.
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| Give us a kick, if you please Your Majesty
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| Give us a kick, if you would, Your Majesty
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| Oh, That was good, Your Majesty! |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You?, artist - Richard Rodgers. Album song The King And I, in the genre Мюзиклы