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Cappicade Fiftyfive. "The Happy Squanderer" [1955]

Act I—Scene 1

Act I—Scene 1

An Eastern Market-place

Opening Chorus

Ho, so we sing while opening up our show,
Doesn't really mean a thing we know,
But still it's something to say
And it sounds much better than "Hey"
Hoping that you'll enjoy this year's Extrav.
Hopeful that it's not the last we have
So, if you're rearing to go,
And don't mind jokes slightly low
On with the show.

Barani's Song

Oh, I'm the famous Mustapha Barani,
The richest man from Africa to Greece,
So I spend the autumn bathing in Miami
And the winter chasing chorus girls in Nice, Very Nice.
Yes, I'm a Sheik, wild but meek,
I take a new wife every week,
But I haven't found one yet that's really right,
I've been on the scoot, with King Farouk
And now they've given him the boot
And done things to him from an unfair height.
I'm a regular Valentino,
At least, when full of vino
And when I get rife, with a pretty wife,
The husband heads for Reno.
Yes I'm a sheik, not mild but meek,
And I get sheikered every week
But I've been good for the past few days
So I think I'd better change my ways tonight.
I'll start in early,
And sock the gin till I get screaming tight,
Then grab a girlie,
And wreak a little damage, if she's chic tonight.

A Verse for the Vamp

For at a party, when I appear,

The girls get tarty, the men all cheer
The dames get het up
But all men get up,
To meet Narobi.

The old men simper, the young men faint,
The old maids whimper, "She's only paint."
But still the males
Start making trails,
To meet Narobi.

Men always find me charming
I'm the one they adore,
They think my smile's disarming
And my figure, they want to see more.

But I say, "Fred, don't get too free,"
My little feed is just for me
So don't get funny
For it costs money
To meet Narobi.

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Sid's Song

I'm as naughty as Paris in spring time
I'm as fast as a student in May
Nevertheless I am forced to confess
That I'm really a wonderful guy.
I'm New Zealand's favourite statesman
Wandering along with my head in the sky
If I should fall please dont blame me at all
For I'm really a wonderful guy.
Royal Commissions make all my decisions
I don't have to make up my mind
Which is all to the good for if ever I should
I boggle to think what you'd find.
I am a smoothie who charms all the ladies
The taxpayers, too, I know just how to woo
And you will note from the way that they vote
That I'm really, I'm really, I'm really,
I'm really,
I'm really a wonderful guy.

Finale

Hip hip hooray for ouu ringenious Sheik,
He"s found a way to get rich in a week,
For all we need is a lead from the the well to a drum
Then we'll 'be rich, so watch out New Zealand, for
Beware, Barani's on his way;
The oily bird s coming out to stay,
So don't recoil at the thought of taking oil from your soil,
Just shout out hip, hip hooray.