"I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer" was a song of the Sixth Doctor's making that he sung to Sally and Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates)
Lyrics
- I ... am the very model of a Gallifreyan buccaneer,
- I've information on all things a Gallifreyan holds most dear.
- I've linked into the Matrix through its exitronic circuitry,
- I understand dimensional and relative chronometry.
- I'm very well aquanted too with matters of the Capitol,
- I'll give you verse and chapter on panopticonian protocol.
- I've been into the Death Zone and I've played the Game of Rassilon,
- Rassilon? Assilon? Bassilon? Aha!
- with pestilential monsters that I got a lot of hassle from.
- With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!
- With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!
- With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle-assle from!
- I understand each language and I speak every vernacular,
- I'll conjugate each verb obscure, decline each line irregular.
- In short in every matter that a Gallifreyan holds most dear I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!
- In short in every matter that a Gallifreyan holds most dear he is the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!
- I've tackled shady Castellans with devious behaviour,
- I've sparred with Time Lord chancellors like Thalia, Goth, or Flavia.
- In fact on some occasions I've held office presidentially,
- though maybe I won't mention I was ousted out eventually.
- I know just how it feels to be a wanted man and on the run,
- but wouldn't leave the carefree buccaneering life for anyone.
- Though sometimes my adventures seem absurdly operatical,
- Operatical? Hatical? Patical? Aha!
- With ups and downs and twists and turns and incidents piratical.
- With ups and downs and twists and turns and incidents piratical!
- With ups and downs and twists and turns and incidents piratical!
- With ups and downs and twists and turns and incidents pirati-ratical!
- I've sailed the seven seas of Earth and all the oceans of the Moon,
- My trusty true Type 40 is my Gallifreyan picaroon.
- But is this really what the average Gallifreyan holds most dear?
- I wonder what they think about this Gallifreyan Buccaneer.
- But is this really what the average Gallifreyan holds most dear? We wonder what they think about this Gallifreyan Buccaneer.
- But...
- I've defeated evil robots such as Daleks, Quarks and Cybermen.
- I've overthrown dictators from Tobias Vaughn to Mavic Chen.
- I've rescued helpless maidens from the devastating Viking hoards.
- Vanquished Autons, Axons, Dæmons, Krotons, Monoids, Vampires, Voords.
- I've liberated planets and delivered them from total war,
- saved Earth, Manussa, Dulkis, Skonnos, Earth, Tigella, Earth once more.
- In short I know I am the truest Rassilonian legate.
- Legate? Decate? Hecate? Hecate? Hmm, not sure if that's canonical. Aha, I have it!
- And so to Time Lords all I say remember me to Gallifrey.
- A sentiment we all agree remember him to Gallifrey!
- A sentiment we all agree remember him to Gallifrey!
- A sentiment we all agree remember him to Galli-allifrey!
- I'm not content to just observe I am a bold adventurer,
- though other Time Lords mock this Gallifreyan interventioner.
- I know in every matter that a Time Lord really should hold dear I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!
- We know in every matter that a Time Lord really should hold dear he is the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!
Behind the scenes
"I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer" is an adaptation of the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan.
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