Ranma: (In a patently false opera alto)Oh, better far to li-hive and die...

Without the nasty curse I'd try....

But the world says no, that' I'll play my part...

With a woman's bod and a man's great heart.

The curse, it wa-harps my bo-dy sooooo....

With water, sake, or rain, or snow.....

But I'll be true to the pro-homise thennnnnn...

And li-hive and die a man among men!

Fooooooooooooor......

I am a Man-Among-Men!

Genma: (looking nervous, in an even more false opera tenor)He is!

He is a Man-Among-Men!

Ranma: And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Man-Among-Men!

Genma: It is! Hurrah for the Man-Among-Men,

hurrah for the Man-Among-Men!

(We see Ranma beating up a panda in the Tendou yard during a

10-second musical interlude, and just before he starts singing again,

he enters the house where we see Akane waiting with something

multicolored that glares at him from a plate.)

Ranma: When I sally forth to sta-hart my day...

(Ranma refuses to eat, and Akane sends him flying with a rather

large wooden mallet.)

Ranma: I comport myself in a Manly way...

(Ranma lands in his desk at Furinkan, and sits there unconscious,

heedless of the rubble falling from where he made a hole in the ceiling

coming down.)

Ranma: I sleep through a few more classes, it's true,

(Ranma shifts to sleep, from which Akane fails to wake him up by

clubbing him over the head with his textbook, which breaks in half.

Ms. Hinako stands by, sweatdropping.)

Ranma: Than a well-bred you-houng man ought to do.

(We see Ranma fighting Kunou)

Ranma: But nary a man in a first-class home...

(We see Ranma fighting Ryouga)

Ranma: Though he can still call his life his own...

(We see Xian Pu, Akane, Ukyou, and Kodachi beating each other

up and incidentally Ranma too, who happens to be sitting in the middle

of it.)

Ranma: Could manage so-homehow to get through...

(We see Onna-Ranma fighting Kodachi)

Ranma: The dai-haily fights...

(We see Ranma fighting Happousai, looking badly beat up from the

previous fights.)

Ranma: I always do!

(Ranma and Genma sing the next chorus with a backdrop picture of

Ranma standing on top of a pile formed of one each unconscious

Kunou, Ryouga, Kodachi, Happousai, Xian Pu, Mu Tsu, and Tarou.)

Ranma: Fooooooooooor... I am a Man-Among-Men!

Genma: (while being watched by an angering Nodoka) He Is! He is a

man... among...

(Genma trails off while Nodoka draws her katana)

Ranma: (looking distinctly nervous, and amused at the same time)

And it is, it is, a PAI-HAINful thing to be a Man-Among-Men!

Genma-panda: (while playing with a tire and holding a sign labeled

"I'm just a cute li'l panda!) Grah gwa gruh gruh gruh grah grah-wah

geh! Grah gwa gruh gruh grah grawah....geh???

(Ranma gets splashed, turning into Onna-Ranma, while Nodoka

chases Genma-Panda offscreen)