But it wasn't a great financial success.

So, after a spell at the Bar, he flew

To the rubber-fields in remote Peru,

But stayed there only a month or two.

For he suddenly conceived a plan

Of studying music at Milan,

Where he sang in the style of the great god Pan.

I heard him sing in the Albert Hall

In the chorus of Mendelssohn's St. Paul,

And his voice was the loudest of them all.