“Zwei Augen so schwartz,
Ach, ist dass ein Spass?
Gesagt hab’ ich nur das er Unrecht gehabt,
Zwei Augen so schwartz!”
“I propose to sing it in Hebrew and modern Greek. But the song has been a fluke right through its career. I thought it would suit the Paragon audiences (we must consider our public). I thought they would like the chorus. But when I came to the ‘Trocadero’ I was a little doubtful, thinking it might be too coarse. So I asked the conductor, and if he had said ‘yes’ I should have changed it at once. It is my principle rather to sacrifice a laugh, than to offend a prejudice.”
Oh, What a Surprise!
The popular Budget Ballad, sung with general rounds of applause at the St. Stephen’s Music Hall, by the new Exchequer Startler, G. J. Goschen.[27]
Air—“Two Lovely Black Eyes.”
Down at the House, in the days that have been,