[[BildDatei:HMS Pinafore Display.jpg|thumb|Das Verzeichnis der Operette]]'''''[[A British Tar''']]'' ist ein das zehnte [[Lied ]] aus dem ersten Akt der Operette "''[[HMS Pinafore]]" '' und wurde wird von den dem [[Mensch|irdischemirdischen]] Musikerduo [[Gilbert und Sullivan]] komponiert.

Im Jahr [[2375]] benutzen [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]] und [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Worf]] die Komposition um [[Data]] abzulenken, damit die beiden ihn außer Gefecht setzen und gefangennehmen gefangen nehmen können. Aufgrund eines Angriffs schaltete schaltet Data zuvor in einen Selbstverteidigungsmodus und muss wieder auf die [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)|USS ''Enterprise''-E]] gebracht werden. ({{Film|9}})

''<poem>A British tar is a soaring soul,<br />As free as a mountain bird,<br />His energetic fist should be ready to resist<br />A dictatorial word.<br />His nose should pant,<br />and his lip should curl,<br />His cheeks should flame<br />and his brow should furl,<br />His bosom should heave,<br /poem>and his heart should glow,<br />And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow.''

''<poem>His nose should pant ,<br />and his lip should curl,<br />His cheeks should flame <br />and his brow should furl,<br />His bosom should heave ,<br />and his heart should glow,<br />And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow.''</poem>

''<poem>His eyes nose should pant and his lip should flash with an inborn firecurl,<br />His cheeks should flame and his brow with scorn be wrung;should furl,<br />He never His bosom should heave and his heart should bow down to a domineering frownglow,<br />Or the tang of And his fist be ever ready for a tyrant tongueknock-down blow.''</poem>

''His foot should stamp,<br /poem>and his throat His eyes should growlflash with an inborn fire,<br />His hair should twirl,brow with scorn be wrung;<br />and his face He never should scowlbow down to a domineering frown,<br />His eyes should flash,Or the tang of a tyrant tongue.<br /poem>and his breast protrude,<br />And this should be his customary attitude.''

''<poem>His heart should stamp,<br />and his throat should growl,<br />His hair should twirl,<br />and his face should scowl,<br />His eyes should flash,<br />and his breast protrude,<br />And this should be his customary attitude.</poem> <poem>His foot should stamp, and his throat should growl,<br />His hair should twirl, and his face should scowl;<br />His eyes should flash, and his breast protrude,<br />And this should be his customary attitude, his attitude, his attitude, his attitude.''</poem>

Scheinbar hat sich ein Textfehler eingeschlichen, so singt Picard ''His heart should stamp'', was korrekt (wie in der Wiederholung) ''His foot should stamp'' heißen müsste. [[Kategorie:MusikMusikstück]][[Kategorie:Menschlich]]