A Civil Campaign Suite

My cousin's extremely persuasive.
My cousin is eloquent, too.
My cousin keeps talking me into
Whatever I don't want to do.

Bring down, bring down
Some of his own on my cousin's head.
Bring down, bring down
Bring cosmic justice to Miles!

    Take away these twits!
    They are giving me fits
And I won't have them running my life.
    I have had my mind
    Too long confined,
I'm tired of being a wife.

    If there's any man,
    It's Lord Vorkosigan,
And he's not in the cards for me.
    Vormoncrief's a fool,
    Zamori's dull,
And for God's sake, not Byerly!

[Picture Enrique alone on stage, a butterbug cupped in his palm.]

They all hate my butterbugs,
Poor little butterbugs,
    Though I could never tell why;
But still you're such lovely bugs,
Dear little butterbugs,
    Sweet little babies of mine.

Without hesitation you eat vegetation
Or Earth-biological waste,
And turn it to butter, which after you utter it,
Humans can season to taste.

I've cultures galore of intestinal flora
To tailor, arrange, and combine.
Disaccharide schemes that I see in my dreams
Can be breeding next evening by nine.

Then try of my butterbugs,
Dear little butterbugs;
    Come, there's no need to be shy.
And taste of this butter,
This lovely bug butter,
    That's made by my butterbugs; try!

On a jumpship bound for Beta
There's a lady in mourning black.
At the shuttleport three months later,
Strong and virile, he's coming back.

How the Vor are plotting,
They plot and scheme and fight!
Plot and plot the whole day through
And half the drunken night.

Dono, Donna, Donna, Dono,
Donna, Dono, Donna, Do',
Dono, Donna, Donna, Dono,
Donna, Dono, Donna, Do'.

I will grow up!
And I'm going back to school.
I'm a woman with a lover,
Not a baby or a fool.

I won't remain a little girl
In Da's old Time-of-Isolation world,
I'm gonna grow up, gonna grow up, gonna grow up
For sure!

You can meet all society
At Alys's grand levee.
      (Including Gregor!)
You can meet all society
At Alys's grand levee.
Just walk right in and you'll be announced.
If ImpSec clears you, you won't get bounced.
You can meet all society
At Alys's grand levee.

I like maple sugar brandy
Brewed from maple sugar mead
Right up in my own Dendarii hills --
You know it's just what you need.