John Milton Hayes

& Eisie April Dedicated, by gracious permission, to H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES Merchandise! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,

& Cuthbert Clarke You can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze, Your curios and tapestries so fine,

& Cuthbert Clarke The colonel stopped, and glared around, Then, pointing sternly to the ground,

& R Fenton Gower The merchant Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race, And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,

& R. Fenton Gower He's acruisin' in a pearler with a dirty nigger crew, Abuyin' pearls and copra for a stingy Spanish Jew,

I've noticed this happen, when everything is black, When I'm down below zero and cannot get back, When I feel like a sort of a National Debt,