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!