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No. 2 - Song - Cosmos and Chorus
| Cosmos: | If there's anybody pining For a reputation shining, Or a fortune such as never yet was made, Let him follow British legions To the newly rescued regions, For adventure or for travel or for trade! Let the teacher philanthropic Take a train across the tropic To instruct the simple swarthy Soudanese, For I'm sure that if he does he Will enrapture Fuzzy-Wuzzy, And will earn a pile of ivory in fees! There's a very fine career For the talent wasted here, And the capital that wants to be increased; You have only to embark it For the newly-opened market, For the bright and booming market of the East! |
| Chorus: | There's a very fine career For the talent wasted here, And the capital that wants to be increased; You have only to embark it For the newly-opened market, For the bright and booming market of the East! |
| Cosmos: | But to aid the Oriental On the moral side and mental Of his progress to a higher mode of life, The result I would arrive at I can hint to you in private Is to fit him with a winning Western wife! So if any lovely lady wants a Pasha or a Kadi, A Sirdar or an Effendi or a Bey, I have specimens in plenty, Down from seventy to twenty, If you want them you have only just to say! When a maiden fair and plump Meets a matrimonial slump, And her beauty cannot charm you in the least, She has only to embark it For the newly-opened market, For the merry marriage market of the East! |
| Chorus: | When a maiden fair and plump Meets a matrimonial slump, And her beauty cannot charm you in the least, She has only to embark it For the newly-opened market, For the merry marriage market of the East! |
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Page modified 18 January 2017