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ANGOT-MANIE.
On Pyrenean mountains,
On Margate's shrimpy sands,
Where Rhine's melodious fountains
Roll down their German bands;
By many a rushing river,
By Neva, Thames, and Seine,
Will none mine ears deliver
From that eternal strain?
“Très jolie—
Peu polie:”
Nothing else where'er I go!
Oh, the bore of it!
Please, no more of it!
Save me from the Dame Angot!
On Margate's shrimpy sands,
Where Rhine's melodious fountains
Roll down their German bands;
By many a rushing river,
By Neva, Thames, and Seine,
Will none mine ears deliver
From that eternal strain?
“Très jolie—
Peu polie:”
Nothing else where'er I go!
Oh, the bore of it!
Please, no more of it!
Save me from the Dame Angot!
Men will not sing the old songs;
Their name is never heard;
For months they haven't sold songs,
But that familiar word:
John, Thomas, Jane, and Mary,
Maid, matron, man, and boy,
The minstrel from the prairie,
The grinder from Savoy,
Shout that ditty in
Every city, in
Every street and every show;
Put a stopper u-
Pon that opera!
And destroy the Dame Angot!
Their name is never heard;
For months they haven't sold songs,
But that familiar word:
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Maid, matron, man, and boy,
The minstrel from the prairie,
The grinder from Savoy,
Shout that ditty in
Every city, in
Every street and every show;
Put a stopper u-
Pon that opera!
And destroy the Dame Angot!
'Frisco, whose portals golden
Let in the golden west,
And all the cities olden,
And all the modernest:
New York, Old York, and Cadiz,
Coomassie, Brixton, Bray,
Ring with the market ladies'
Refrain all night and day!
Oh, ye deities!
In each key it is;
Flute, and organ, and also
Pianoforte tune
Up that naughty tune—
Save us from the dame Angot!
Let in the golden west,
And all the cities olden,
And all the modernest:
New York, Old York, and Cadiz,
Coomassie, Brixton, Bray,
Ring with the market ladies'
Refrain all night and day!
Oh, ye deities!
In each key it is;
Flute, and organ, and also
Pianoforte tune
Up that naughty tune—
Save us from the dame Angot!
Paris, 1874.
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