The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

Obedient to his sovereign will,

And said, "Good Rum-ti-foo!

Half-way to meet you I'll prepare:

I'll dress myself in cowries rare,

And fasten feathers in my hair,

And dance the 'Cutch-chi-boo'!"

And to conciliate his see

He married Piccadillillee,

The youngest of his twenty-three,