El Capitan, Act I: “Nobles of Castilian birth”

[CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Nobles of Castilian birth
The proudest ancestry on earth
Our golden goblets here we drain
Of rarest wine of royal Spain
And so we sit the livelong day
While joyous minutes pass away
With cards and wine our life's divine
And pleasure has full sway

Thieving, sleeving, each deceiving
Thieving, sleeving, each deceiving
Thieving, sleeving, each deceiving
With Castilian grace

There's not a game that gamblers use
The innocents to rifle
With which we do not trifle
We're down to every dodge and ruse
Our consciences to stifle
When we win or when we lose

There's not a game that gamblers use
The innocents to rifle
With which we do not trifle
We're down to every dodge and ruse
Our consciences to stifle
When we win or when we lose
Win or lose, win or lose
When we win or when we lose

Nobles of Castilian birth
The proudest ancestry on earth
Our golden goblets here we drain
Of rarest wine of royal Spain
And so we sit the livelong day
While joyous minutes pass away
With cards and wine our life's divine
And pleasure has full sway

There's not a game that gamblers use
The innocents to rifle
With which we do not trifle
We're down to every dodge and ruse
Our consciences to stifle
When we win or when we lose
When we win, when we lose
Yes, our consciences to stifle
When we win or when we lose

[PRINCESS]
His Excellency begs you to excuse him
He's very busy and he's rather blue

[CASTILIAN NOBLES]
He's always blue

[ISABEL]
He fears that his new subjects may accuse him
Of taking life too easy in Peru

[CASTILIAN NOBLES]
We don't!
Some do!

[PRINCESS]
This barbarous land uncouth
In which our fortune is placed
Can ravish no eye of taste
Nor charm the bosom of youth

[CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Nor charm the bosom of youth

[PRINCESS]
But in our exclusive set
We breathe the air of Spain
As we hear the sweet refrain
Of the rollicking castanet

To the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy let us sip, joy let us sip
Yes, to the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy let us sip, joy we will sip, we'll sip

[PRINCESS & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
To the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy we will sip, joy we will sip
Yes, to the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy we will sip, joy we will sip, we'll sip

[ISABEL]
Ah, beautiful land of Spain
My heart is ever with thee
In visions I cross the sea
And know thy pleasures again
And never shall I forget
Where the brave, the courtly dwell
While living 'neath the spell
Of the rollicking castanet

To the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy let us sip, joy let us sip
Yes, to the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy let us sip, joy we will sip, we'll sip

[PRINCESS, ISABEL & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
To the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy let us sip, joy let us sip
Yes, to the castanet's sound let us trip
Joy we will sip, joy we will sip, we'll sip

[VERRADA]
Your Highness, let this frolic ended be
His Excellency I at once must see

[PRINCESS]
Peruvian manners take us unawares
The Viceroy is engaged on state affairs

[VERRADA]
Rebellious cries a dozen plazas fill
Cazarro claims that he is viceroy still

From Peru's majestic mountains
Echoes an unhappy song
From the sweet, pellucid fountains
That her valleys course along
From the eagle, boldly soaring
In the azure overhead
All regretting, all deploring
That our liberty is dead

From the mountains, the fountains
From the eagle overhead
Boldly soaring, comes deploring
That their liberty is dead

[PRINCESS, ISABEL & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
From the mountains, from the fountains

[PRINCESS, ISABEL, VERRADA & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
From the eagle overhead

[ISABEL & VERRADA]
Boldly soaring

[PRINCESS & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Boldly soaring

[ISABEL & VERRADA]
Comes deploring

[PRINCESS & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Comes deploring

[VERRADA]
That their liberty

[PRINCESS, ISABEL, VERRADA & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Is dead

[CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Our goblets let us drain to both Peru and Spain!

[PRINCESS, ISABEL & VERRADA]
Our goblets let us drain to both Peru and Spain!

[PRINCESS, ISABEL, VERRADA & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
Drink! Drink! Drink!

[CASTILIAN NOBLES, PRINCESS, ISABEL & VERRADA]
Nobles of Castilian birth (Drink to Peru)
The proudest ancestry on earth
Our golden goblets here we drain (And to Spain)
Of rarest wine of royal Spain
And so we sit the livelong day (Drink to Peru)
While joyous minutes pass away (And to Spain)
With cards and wine our life's divine (To Peru)
And pleasure has full sway (And Spain)

[PRINCESS & CASTILIAN NOBLES, ISABEL & VERRADA]
Let's drink to both (Let's drink to both Peru and Spain)
Peru and Spain (To both Peru and Spain)
"Our motherland, we love her! (To mighty Spain)
No other land above her!" (To mighty Spain)
Our golden goblets (Our golden goblets here we drain)
Here we drain (To both Peru and Spain)
To Peru (Peru and Spain) (To both Peru)

[PRINCESS, ISABEL, VERRADA & CASTILIAN NOBLES]
To both Peru and Spain
Our golden goblets here we drain
To both Peru and Spain
Our golden goblets here we drain to Spain!