English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production of the Off-Broadway musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Lane:<\/em> If nobody bought anything The debts inherited from prior generations Raise your cup of tea in praise Greengrocer:<\/em> Tobacconist:<\/em> Creditors:<\/em> English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production of the Off-Broadway musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,5],"tags":[7,31],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
If the nobility ever
Got into the habit
Of paying off their debts, well!
That would be a most dreadfully
Bothersome state of affairs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things would just pile up and wouldn\u2019t that be a bother?
We can\u2019t buy much
Using just money
So that\u2019s why the nobility has to have debts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prop up this country\u2019s economy!
That\u2019s right: you could call it
A British tradition!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of our nobility!
Come now, raise your cup!
Without the nobility we couldn\u2019t survive\u2013
That\u2019s the British system!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Damn it, I could cry!
This is too much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been waiting 13 years for this bill to be paid off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nobles do fine living off their checks
But it\u2019s not as if we
Can eat a signature
The nobles might be blessed with riches
But that\u2019s because they borrow from everyone else!
They don\u2019t work and just live indolently:
Are we supposed to forgive that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"