Scene: the docks of Lisbon. Enter the Spanish crews as they say goodbye to their wives, daughters, mistresses, harlots, and any other woman they couldn’t sneak aboard ship as a Lt. in charge of “discipline.”
Tamio di Napoli, Captain of the San Lorenzo:
When the foeman bares his steel, Tarantara!
We uncomfortable feel, Tarantara!
And we find the wisest thing, Tarantara!
Is to slap our chests and sing, Tarantara!
For when threatened with emeutes, Tarantara!
And your heart is in your boots, Tarantara!
There is nothing brings it round
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Like the trumpet's martial sound Tarantara! tarantara!.
Mrs. AOK: Go, ye heroes, go to glory, though you die in combat GORY,
Ye shall live in song and story. Go to immortality!
Go to DEATH, and go to SLAUGHTER; DIE, and every Spanish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water. Go, ye heroes, go and die!
Women: Go, ye heroes, go and die!
Francisco Draque, Captain of the Rosario:
Though to us it's evident, tarantara!
These attentions are well meant, tarantara!
Such expressions don't appear, Tarantara!
Calculated men to cheer, Tarantara!
Who are going to meet their fate in a highly nervous state.
Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
Still to us it's evident these attentions are well meant.
Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
Mrs. Euro Go and do your best endeavor, and before all links we sever,
We will say farewell forever. Go to glory and the GRAVE!
Women: Go to glory and the grave! For your foes are fierce and ruthless,
False, unmerciful, and truthless; Young and tender, old and toothless,
All in vain their mercy crave.
D. Sebastiao: We observe too great a stress, on the risks that on us press,
And of reference a lack to our chance of coming back.
Still, perhaps it would be wise not to carp or criticize,
For it's very evident these attentions are well meant.
Mrs AOK: Away, away!
Rendap de Rabaul: (without moving) Yes, yes, we go.
Mrs AOK: These English slay.
Fernando Montoya: Tarantara!
Mrs AOK: Then do not stay.
Juan Gomez de Medina: Tarantara!
Mrs AOK: Then why this delay?
Don Juan: All right, we go. Yes, forward on the foe!
Mrs AOK: Yes, but you don't go!
Senor Coconut: We go, we go. Yes, forward on the foe!
Mrs AOK: Yes, but you don't go!
