More Pirates...

Here's The Modern Major General number from the Pirates of Penzance... with SUBTITLES!!! which is fantastic... especially at the end when he sings it so fast you can't understand a word... but, it's really amazing!!!

Here's an interesting tid-bit. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote Pirates while they were in America involved in a different kind of piracy. Copyright piracy. See America "pirated" their last opera "HMS Pinafore" changed a bunch of things and didn't pay any royalties. So, while Gilbert and Sullivan were over in New York investigating... they penned another opera... on the subject of piracy.