Behold the Lord High Executioner

"Behold the Lord High Executioner"

Song Information

Singers:	Kelsey Grammer
Characters:	Sideshow Bob disguised as Walt Warren
Length:	0:09
Writer(s):	Gilbert and Sullivan
Appearance(s):	"The Bob Next Door"

"Behold the Lord High Executioner" is a song sung by Sideshow Bob disguised as Walt Warren.

Lyrics

Behold the Lord High Executioner,

A personage of noble rank and title.

A dignified and potent officer

Whose functions are particularly vital.

Defer, defer to the Lord High Executioner.

Defer, defer to the noble lord, to the noble lord,

To the Lord High Executioner.

Taken from the county jail

By a set of curious chances

Liberated then on bail

On my own recognisances

Wafted by a favouring gale

As one sometimes is in trances

To a height that few can scale

Saved by long and weary dances

Surely never had a male

Under such like circumstances

So adventurous a tale

Which may rank with most romances.

Taken from the county jail (Taken from the country jail)

By a set of curious chances (Liberated then on bail)

Surely never had a male (Surely never had a male)

So adventurous a tale (So adventurous a tale.)

Defer, defer to the Lord High Executioner.

Defer, defer to the noble lord, to the noble Lord

High Executioner

Bow down, bow down to the Lord High Executioner.

Defer, defer, to the noble, noble Lord High Executioner.

"Behold the Lord High Executioner" is a song from the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera The Mikado.