Music: Arthur Sullivan/William Schwenck Gilbert/Rupert Holmes
With Cat-Like Tread
Upon our prey we steal
In silence dread
Our cautious way we feel
No sound at all
We never speak a word
A fly's foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard
So stealthily the pirate creeps
While all the household soundly sleeps
Come friends, who plough the sea
Truce to navigation
Take another station
Let's build the piracy
With a new brutality
Come friends, who plough the sea
Truce to navigation
Take another station
Let's build the piracy
With a new brutality
NOW threaten bestly
And here are my destiny
For I plan the debtor
Things could not be better
First we will slaughter him
And after that on daughter him
Isn't that a choice
We send our daughters you send yours
We got the tread
Inside the treasure
With Cat-Like Tread
Upon our prey we steal
In silence dread
Our cautious way we feel
No sound at all
We never speak a word
A fly's foot-fall
Would be distinctly heard
Come friends, who plough the sea
Truce to navigation
Take another station
Let's build the piracy
With a new brutality
Come friends, who plough the sea
Truce to navigation
Take another station
Let's build the piracy
With a new brutality
With catlike tread
Upon our prey we steal
In silence dread
Our cautious way we feel