《What Do The Simple Folks Do》歌词

[00:00:03] GUENEVERE

[00:00:04] What do the simple folk do

[00:00:11] To help them escape when they're blue?

[00:00:13] The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum

[00:00:21] The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb

[00:00:22] When they/'re beset and besieged

[00:00:23] The folk not noblessly obliged

[00:00:23] However do they manage to shed their weary lot?

[00:00:25] Oh, what do simple folk do we do not?

[00:00:25] ARTHUR

[00:00:26] I have been informed by those who know them well

[00:00:27] They find relief in quite a clever way

[00:00:27] When they/'re sorely pressed, they whistle for a spell

[00:00:29] And whistling seems to brighten up their day

[00:00:32] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:00:33] So they say

[00:00:33] GUENEVERE

[00:00:34] They whistle?

[00:00:34] ARTHUR

[00:00:34] So they say

[00:00:35] (they whistle for a while)

[00:00:35] GUENEVERE

[00:00:39] What else do the simple folk do

[00:00:40] To pluck up the heart and get through?

[00:00:40] The wee folk and the grown folk

[00:00:45] Who wander to and fro

[00:00:45] Have ways known to their own folk

[00:00:46] We throne folk don/'t know

[00:00:46] When all the doldrums begin

[00:00:47] What keeps each of them in his skin?

[00:00:48] What ancient native custom provides the needed glow?

[00:00:50] Oh, what do simple folk do?

[00:00:51] Do you know?

[00:00:52] ARTHUR

[00:01:08] Once, upon the road, I came upon a lad

[00:01:11] Singing in a voice three times his size

[00:01:12] When I asked him why, he told me he was sad

[00:01:15] And singing always made his spirits rise

[00:01:16] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:01:16] I surmise

[00:01:18] GUENEVERE

[00:01:21] They sing?

[00:01:23] ARTHUR

[00:01:25] I surmise

[00:01:27] BOTH

[00:01:34] Arise, my love, arise, my love

[00:01:38] Apollo/'s lighting the skies, my love

[00:01:39] The meadows shine with columbine

[00:01:40] And daffodils blossom away

[00:01:44] Hear Venus call to one and all

[00:01:45] And taste delight while you may

[00:01:45] The world is bright and all is right

[00:01:46] And life is merry and gay

[00:01:46] GUENEVERE

[00:01:50] What else do the simple folk do?

[00:01:51] They must have a system or two

[00:01:52] They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth

[00:01:53] And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth

[00:01:55] What, then, I wonder, do they

[00:01:56] To chase all the goblins away?

[00:01:57] They have some tribal sorcery you haven/'t mentioned yet

[00:01:58] Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?

[00:01:59] ARTHUR

[00:01:59] Often, I am told, they dance a fiery dance

[00:02:00] And whirl /'till they/'re completely uncontrolled

[00:02:01] Soon the mind is blank and oh, they/'re in a trance

[00:02:02] A violent trance astounding to behold

[00:02:04] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:05] So I/'m told

[00:02:05] GUENEVERE

[00:02:06] They dance?

[00:02:06] ARTHUR

[00:02:06] So I/'m told

[00:02:06] (they dance)

[00:02:07] GUENEVERE

[00:02:07] What else do the simple folk do

[00:02:08] To help them escape when they/'re blue?

[00:02:09] ARTHUR

[00:02:10] They sit around and wonder what royal folk would do

[00:02:11] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:11] GUENEVERE

[00:02:11] (spoken)

[00:02:13] Oh, no, really?

[00:02:13] ARTHUR

[00:02:17] I have it on the best authority.

[00:02:18] BOTH

[00:02:18] (sung)

[00:02:18] Yes, that/'s what simple folk do