Chords for Stratford Festival 1982--"The Mikado" I Am So Proud

_ [F#] _ [Bm] I _ _ am so proud if I allowed my family pride to be [C#m] my guide.
I volunteer to quit this fear instead of you in a minute or [D#m] two.
But family [Em] pride must be [C#] denied and set [B] aside and mortified and _ _ _ mortified.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _
My brain it teems [Em] with endless schemes [Bm] both good and you for titty poo [F#] for titty poo.
[Bm] But if I lit the [D] benefit then I'd defuse the town would lose.
[Bm] Now every [A] man to aid his clan should plot and [F#m] plan as best he can.
_ [A] _ _
[D] _ I heard one [A] day a gentleman say the criminals who are [D] cut in two can hardly feel the fatal steel.
And so a slave a slain without much pain.
If this is true it's jolly for you your [E] courage grew to be [A] this a few. _ _ _
[F#] I _ _ _ [Bm] am [G] so proud if I allowed my family pride to be my guide.
I volunteer to quit [D] this [F#] fear instead of you in a minute or two.
_ [G#] _ _ _
[C#] And so although I'm ready to go [F#m]
yet [F] recollect to a [A] disrespected I neglect to thus effect this [E] aim direct.
So I [A] object.
And so although I [C#] wish to [F#] go and greatly pine [F] to brightly shine and take [A] the line of a hero [D] fine with grief undying.
[C#] I must _ [F#] decline _ and [A#] go and show both friend and foe how much you dare.
I'm quite [F#] aware it's your affair [D] yet I declare I take [G#] your share but I don't [F#] much care.
[Em] I must [F#] decline.
[Em] I must [F#] decline.
[Em] I must decline.
_ [F#] _
I must decline.
I must decline.
I must decline.
I must decline. _
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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ to [G#m] sit in solid silence in a dollar dark dock [E] in a pestilential prison with a [Bm] lifelong lock
awaiting the sensation of a short sharp [B] shock from a chibi chibi chock around a big black block
to sit in solid silence in a dollar dark dock in a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock
awaiting the sensation of a [E] short sharp shock from a [B] chibi chibi chock around a big black block
a dollar [D#m] dark block a long long lock a short sharp shock a big black block
to sit [E] in solid silence in a pestilential [B] prison and awaiting the sensation of a chibi chibi chock
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[B] _ _ a [E] _ _ _ [B] _
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[G#m] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ dollar _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#] _ dark block
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