[ti:I Don't Understand The Poor]
[ar:A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder]
[al:A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Original Broadway Cast Recording)]
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[00:00.00]I Don't Understand the Poor - Jefferson Mays/A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder Original Broadway Cast
[00:00.49]I say you there hands off that sword put down that book
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[00:09.01]Isn't it enough we let you look
[00:10.79]
[00:11.90]I hate to dash your futile little hopes
[00:14.95]
[00:16.12]But you pay your sixpence
[00:18.30]And stay behind the ropes
[00:20.12]
[00:23.35]I cringe when every cobbler
[00:24.90]
[00:25.59]Or butcher
[00:26.54]Or farmer
[00:27.60]Comes touching my bannisters
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[00:29.93]Banging my Armour
[00:31.33]
[00:32.21]They finger every finial
[00:33.96]They poke your cornerstone
[00:36.07]
[00:36.95]Who'd want to be reminded
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[00:39.80]Of what they'll never own
[00:42.59]
[00:43.68]Though my politics are purely democratical
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[00:48.55]I find the species frankly problematical
[00:51.88]
[00:56.25]I don't understand the poor
[00:58.40]
[00:59.69]I don't understand the poor
[01:01.58]
[01:02.72]The lives they lead
[01:04.45]Of want and need
[01:05.75]
[01:06.40]I should think it would be a bore
[01:08.37]
[01:09.48]It seems to be nothing but stubbornness
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[01:12.15]So what's all the suffering for
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[01:15.50]To be so debased
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[01:17.53]Is in terrible taste
[01:18.80]
[01:19.67]I don't understand the poor
[01:21.63]
[01:22.21]To be so debased
[01:23.40]Is in terrible taste
[01:24.41]I don't understand
[01:25.52]To summarize the heretofor
[01:27.85]He does not understand the poor
[01:29.90]I don't understand the poor
[01:31.18]
[01:31.72]And they're constantly turning out more
[01:33.77]Ever festering slum
[01:34.96]In Christendom
[01:35.89]Is disgorging its young by the score
[01:37.40]
[01:37.94]I suppose there are some with ambition
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[01:40.07]Say the pickpocket beggar or whore
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[01:42.08]From what I can tell
[01:43.28]They do quite well
[01:44.36]They're rising above
[01:45.23]And it's work they love
[01:46.36]But I don't understand the poor
[01:47.58]
[01:48.37]They're rising above
[01:49.30]And it's work they love
[01:50.41]But I don't understand the poor
[01:51.70]
[01:52.21]Where's the dignity ensemble where's the dignity
[01:54.39]Where's the pride where's the pride
[01:56.21]The ignominity the ig
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[01:58.22]Putting the lame and the halt aside
[02:00.20]Why accept charity
[02:02.08]I am perplexed by their attitude
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[02:04.03]I contend we extend them too much latitude
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[02:08.48]My tenants have no excuse
[02:09.93]
[02:10.46]At Christmas I give them a goose
[02:12.22]Where's the integrity
[02:13.07]
[02:14.06]Where's the gratitude
[02:15.09]
[02:16.23]I don't understand the poor
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[02:18.44]How I long for days of yore
[02:20.47]When nary a vassal
[02:21.56]Stepped into your castle
[02:22.51]They knew not to darken your door
[02:23.82]
[02:24.35]Now they barge in every Tuesday
[02:26.40]With a sickening thickening roar
[02:27.57]
[02:28.45]Why clatter and trample
[02:29.69]Set an example
[02:30.62]We teach them to read
[02:31.67]But do they succeed
[02:32.48]When they're hungry and frail
[02:33.66]We feed them in jail
[02:35.11]We send them off to war
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[02:37.92]I don't understand
[02:39.64]I'm not being grand
[02:40.96]I don't understand the poor
[02:42.19]
[02:42.76]I don't understand
[02:43.66]I'm not being grand
[02:44.94]I don't understand
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[02:50.54]Oh there's one I admit I adore
[02:53.74]
[02:55.17]He's missing a leg
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[02:56.95]But a very good egg
[02:58.45]
[02:58.96]A gentleman through to the core
[03:01.11]
[03:02.24]Well he may be a bit of a drinker
[03:04.59]He can often be found on the floor
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[03:08.11]Through all of his pains
[03:09.75]He never complains
[03:11.20]
[03:12.01]He's bright and astute
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[03:14.21]A shame that he's mute
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[03:17.33]According to mother
[03:19.09]He may be my brother
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[03:21.11]A fact we all choose to ignore
[03:23.85]But I don't understand
[03:25.11]I'm sensitive and
[03:26.08]I don't understand the poor
[03:27.30]
[03:28.26]I don't understand
[03:29.21]I'm sensitive and
[03:30.29]I don't understand
[03:31.19]They're a pox on the land
[03:32.52]I don't understand
[03:33.31]I don't understand
[03:34.46]I don't understand the poor
[03:39.68]Don't understand
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[03:41.50]Really I don't