Parody of "Gentlemen of Japan" by Gilbert & Sullivan. Parody written and produced by The Freedom Toast with Video Production by Cinebot Video
Executive Producers for Parody Project Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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LYRICS by The Freedom Toast
Economists with no plan (to the tune of Gentlemen of Japan from the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan)
If you want to know who we are
We’re Republicans with no plan
Our poor Kevin has no clue
How to take a budget stand
Joe Biden offered a deal
It sorta had the right feel
McCarthy has no appeal, oh!
If consensus can be found
Then Hakeem might be our man
If someone can nudge the Dow
He will do it if anyone can
“Conservative” pays no bills
We need a man with skills
Who won’t run for the hills,
Who won’t run for them hills!
If you want to know who we are
We’re Republicans with no plan.
We have no clue
We have no plan
Since a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time, oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
We have no clue!
We have no plan!
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL MUSIC
The song Gentlemen of Japan is from The Mikado.
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. By the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.
The Mikado is the most internationally successful Savoy opera and has been especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirize British politics and institutions more freely, by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.