《What Do The Simple Folks Do》歌词

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] What do the simple folk do

[00:02:19] To help them escape when they're blue?

[00:02:19] The shepard who is ailing, the milkmaid who is glum

[00:02:19] The cobbler who is wailing from nailing his thumb

[00:02:19] When they/'re beset and besieged

[00:02:19] The folk not noblessly obliged

[00:02:19] However do they manage to shed their weary lot?

[00:02:19] Oh, what do simple folk do we do not?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] I have been informed by those who know them well

[00:02:19] They find relief in quite a clever way

[00:02:19] When they/'re sorely pressed, they whistle for a spell

[00:02:19] And whistling seems to brighten up their day

[00:02:19] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:19] So they say

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] They whistle?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] So they say

[00:02:19] (they whistle for a while)

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] What else do the simple folk do

[00:02:19] To pluck up the heart and get through?

[00:02:19] The wee folk and the grown folk

[00:02:19] Who wander to and fro

[00:02:19] Have ways known to their own folk

[00:02:19] We throne folk don/'t know

[00:02:19] When all the doldrums begin

[00:02:19] What keeps each of them in his skin?

[00:02:19] What ancient native custom provides the needed glow?

[00:02:19] Oh, what do simple folk do?

[00:02:19] Do you know?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] Once, upon the road, I came upon a lad

[00:02:19] Singing in a voice three times his size

[00:02:19] When I asked him why, he told me he was sad

[00:02:19] And singing always made his spirits rise

[00:02:19] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:19] I surmise

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] They sing?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] I surmise

[00:02:19] BOTH

[00:02:19] Arise, my love, arise, my love

[00:02:19] Apollo/'s lighting the skies, my love

[00:02:19] The meadows shine with columbine

[00:02:19] And daffodils blossom away

[00:02:19] Hear Venus call to one and all

[00:02:19] And taste delight while you may

[00:02:19] The world is bright and all is right

[00:02:19] And life is merry and gay

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] What else do the simple folk do?

[00:02:19] They must have a system or two

[00:02:19] They obviously outshine us at turning tears to mirth

[00:02:19] And tricks a royal highness is minus from birth

[00:02:19] What, then, I wonder, do they

[00:02:19] To chase all the goblins away?

[00:02:19] They have some tribal sorcery you haven/'t mentioned yet

[00:02:19] Oh, what do simple folk do to forget?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] Often, I am told, they dance a fiery dance

[00:02:19] And whirl /'till they/'re completely uncontrolled

[00:02:19] Soon the mind is blank and oh, they/'re in a trance

[00:02:19] A violent trance astounding to behold

[00:02:19] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:19] So I/'m told

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] They dance?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] So I/'m told

[00:02:19] (they dance)

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] What else do the simple folk do

[00:02:19] To help them escape when they/'re blue?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] They sit around and wonder what royal folk would do

[00:02:19] And that/'s what simple folk do

[00:02:19] GUENEVERE

[00:02:19] (spoken)

[00:02:19] Oh, no, really?

[00:02:19] ARTHUR

[00:02:19] I have it on the best authority.

[00:02:19] BOTH

[00:02:19] (sung)

[00:02:19] Yes, that/'s what simple folk do