[Hooker Pasha:]
My name it is Hooker Pasha,
No family tree can I muster,
In fact I was left by Mamma
Done up with some string in a duster.
And so on the parish I came
And guardians would give me a penny,
As they told me to work and to make my own name,
And in fact I have made a good many!
I've played my part with versatile art,
Admired by each onlooker;
I've gone by numerous names of sorts
In numerous royal and bankruptcy courts,
The highly various, multifarious,
cosmopolitan Hooker!
[Chorus:]
He's played his part with versatile art,
Admired by each onlooker;
He's gone by numerous names of sorts
In numerous royal and bankruptcy courts,
The highly various, multifarious,
cosmopolitan Hooker!
[Hooker Pasha:]
Though humble at first was my life,
I felt as contented as may be,
I married a plump little wife
And owned an intelligent baby.
But sadly I own it to you,
I fell among reprobate sinners;
I took a few bets from some men that I knew,
And they somehow had all backed the winners!
In haste perforce I quitted the course,
Reviled by each onlooker;
An absent-minded beggar I am,
I carelessly bolted for Rotterdam,
Without my beautiful, dear, and dutiful
wife and infantile Hooker!
[Chorus:]
In haste perforce he quitted the course,
Reviled by each onlooker;
An absent-minded beggar is he,
He carelessly bolted across the sea,
Without his beautiful, dear, and dutiful
wife and infantile Hooker!
[Hooker Pasha:]
At Paris a trifle I made,
By shouting "A bas!" and "Conspuez!"
I've rode a Rhodesian raid,
I've smoked a Manilla with Dewey!
I've served on the sea and the shore,
I've lied till the Cretans revolted,
I commanded the Greeks when they went to the war,
And I turned to a Turk when they bolted!
I risk my skin, but not to win
The prize of each onlooker;
The Jew, the Turk, and the infidel,
I'll fight for them all if they pay for it well,
I serve them martially, quite impartially,
that's the method of Hooker!
[Chorus:]
He risks his skin, but not to win
The prize of each onlooker;
The Jew, the Turk, and the infidel,
He'll fight for them all if they pay for it well,
He serves them martially, quite impartially,
that's the method of Hooker!
[Hooker Pasha:]
The last of my lucrative trades
Was one that I lately began on,
Procuring a party called Leyds
Some shells for the use of his cannon!
So good a commission I got,
I took special care with the loading;
And you're able to spot any shell of my lot
By the fact of its never exploding!
Though good Oom Paul perhaps may call
Me een verdomd verneuker,
Yet, many a Tommy sent to the war
May miss being slain by his brother the Boer,
Through shells protectively filled defectively
by the merciful Hooker!
[Chorus:]
Though good Oom Paul perhaps may call
Him een verdomd verneuker,
Yet, many a Tommy sent to the war
May miss being slain by his brother the Boer,
Through shells protectively filled defectively
by the merciful Hooker!