This Ameer wants to see no Muscovite.

Not at all!—not a bit!—

'Tain't for him at all the Afghan crown is meant!"

"Go on!"—say they,—"Who is it?"

Chorus.

"Why, it's Ab-dur-rahman, son of Afzul, son of Dost

Mohammed, means to rule the fierce Afghan!

Don't you know me?—Go on!—Well, you will, my good man,

For I'm Ab-dur-rahman the dandy Afghan Khan!"

Now a man like me is a terror to the tribes,