Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
The Rose of Persia
Song No. 8
When my father sent me to Ispahan
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SONG. -- HASSAN
and
CHORUS.
When my father sent me to Ispahan,
Said he, "My boy, don't dread it;
Here's the usual one-half crown, Hassan,
You'll get some more, with credit."
With a nice new suit and a brush and comb,
And a tongue that's smooth and witty,
A man may be nothing at all at home,
But something in the City!"
Chorus
:
That's all you want to feel at home
As something in the City!
Hassan
:
So I came to town, where I said that I
Was the owner of an island,
Where the sea-birds flocked -- and bye and bye
The gulls did flock to
my
land!
As a sample soil I had mixed some loam
With gold to make it gritty;
A prophet I'd never been made at home,
But made one in the City!
Chorus
:
A prophet I'd never been at home,
But made one in the City!
Hassan
:
Now that gold of mine was a mine of gold
That set the town a-whirling;
So the public and the land I sold
For half a million sterling!
As the Romans do you must do in Rome
(Where thieves are called
Banditti
),
But impudent robbery spells at home,
"Promotion" in the City!
Chorus
:
That's what we call it here at home,
"Promotion" in the City!
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