Pirate Queen movie - Boys'll Be Boys lyrics

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Song by Original Broadway Cast<br /><br>

MAN #1<br>

(spoken)<br>

Donal, you were born to marry a queen! Too bad she's a ... Pirate!<br>

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DONAL<br>

Clan O'Flaherty men,<br>

It's touching to see you<br>

Friends should share<br>

A great occasion like this<br>

With the dawn I wed my O'Malley beauty<br>

I'll need help to face<br>

The challenge<br>

Of wedded<br>

Bliss<br>

<br>

I can see you're laughing at me already<br>

My bride's been a captain running a crew<br>

But there is a war, and war brings a duty<br>

This calls for a man to do<br>

What a man<br>

Must<br>

Do<br>

<br>

Boys'll be boys,<br>

Lads'll be lads,<br>

Living the way God planned<br>

Showing women how the world ought to be<br>

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MATES<br>

Boys'll be boys,<br>

Lads'll be lads,<br>

How to get her in hand?<br>

<br>

DONAL<br>

Honest, friends, the answer's right there<br>

Have you never broken a mare?<br>

<br>

DONAL AND MATES<br>

Boys are boys, and boys, that's how it should be<br>

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BARMAIDS<br>

Boys'll be boys<br>

That is no girl<br>

How will a lad survive<br>

She's a sort of lady shark, as it were<br>

After the drums<br>

Wedding night comes<br>

Who will come out alive?<br>

She's been a captain running a crew<br>

She's killed people, ran 'em right through<br>

Sorry, Donal, lad, I'm betting on her<br>

(DONAL trumps the laughter at his expense.)<br>

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DONAL<br>

(holds up a gold coin; spoken)<br>

A gold sovereign says that I, Donal O'Flaherty, will have her eating oats out of my hand within a week!<br>

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(sung)<br>

I'll be rough when she needs it,<br>

Rough as seas ever were<br>

Up to know she's been steering<br>

Now it's time to steer her<br>

<br>

She's confused about gender<br>

She been too long "at sea"<br>

I may well have to beach her<br>

Take her inland and teach her<br>

What a woman should be<br>

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DONAL AND MEN<br>

Boys'll be boys<br>

<br>

BARMAIDS<br>

Girls'll be girls<br>

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ALL<br>

Gotta have one last fling<br>

Gotta cram a lifetime in before dawn<br>

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DONAL<br>

Tragic it's not<br>

Want to know what?<br>

Marriage won't change a thing:<br>

Listen, friends, a conjugal vow<br>

Doesn't change a bull to a cow<br>

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DONAL AND ALL<br>

Married man or not the party goes on<br>

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[Thanks to Chris for lyrics]<br>

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