Rah-rah, Tip-top Lyrics - Original Broadway Cast

LORDS 

(spoken) 

Your Majesty! 

BINGHAM 

(spoken) 

Your Majesty! 

ELIZABETH 

(spoken) 

Lord Bingham. Lords. What news of our Empire? 

LORDS #1 AND #2 

Everything sails, your Highness, 

Troubles in France are dead 

LORDS #3 AND #4 

Nothing in Wales, your Highness, 

To bother the royal head 

LORDS #5 AND #6 

Taxes increase, your Highness; 

Even when gained by force 

BINGHAM 

Ev'rywhere peace, your Highness; 

Ireland aside, of course... 

ELIZABETH 

(spoken) 

Ireland? 

BINGHAM 

(spoken) 

Hardly worth mentioning. 

ELIZABETH 

(spoken) 

No. No please, Lord Bingham, mention it... 

BINGHAM 

Well... 

Only last week, your Highness 

One of our ships attacked 

Caught in a sneak, your Highness, 

Boarded at dawn and sacked 

Leave it to us, your Highness, 

We'll locate the Irish ship 

What's to discuss, your Highness; 

Everything's...pip! 

LORDS AND BINGHAM 

Rah-rah, tip-top 

Ev'rything's right as rain 

Rah-rah, tip-top 

Here in the Queen's domain 

Sea to sea to sea 

The English crown is holding sway 

BINGHAM 

Don't allow the Irish bog 

To taint the royal day 

LORDS AND BINGHAM 

As it has been! 

So shall it be! 

God save the Queen! 

England eternally 

Rah-rah, tip-top 

Perfectly in the pink! 

ELIZABETH 

(spoken) 

The captain of this ship you cannot locate - what is his name? 

BINGHAM 

What's his name? I blush to testify 

And oh, you're bound to laugh when you hear why 

For, your Highness, it turns out, you see 

That he ... is a she 

ELIZABETH 

(spoken) 

What? A female captain?! 

BINGHAM 

Grace O'Malley is her name, 

She strikes at night - 

Countless cruel, bloodthirsty men 

At her command 

Were I not bound for Asia 

I'd fix Ireland myself 

ELIZABETH 

If your true desire 

Is to see Ireland 

Brought to heel 

We commission you 

Lord Governor true 

Of all of Ireland 

Crush the clans 

The pirates too 

BINGHAM 

(spoken) 

But, your majesty... 

ELIZABETH 

Do not tha-a-a-a-a-ank me- 

Kneel 

LORDS 

Rah-rah, tip-top, 

Masterfully resolved! 

One bold stroke, the 

Matter of Ireland solved! 

"Difficult," King Henry said, 

"To govern like a king." 

One day out, already 

You've a handle on thing 

As it has been! 

So shall it be! 

God save the Queen! 

England eternally 

Rah-rah, tip-top 

So goes the old refrain 

Rah-rah, tip-top 

Ev'rything's right as rain! 

Ev'rything's right as rain!