5. Duet: Holmes and Conan Doyle.

When Wild Spooks Come to Blows.

(Air: "Dirty Work.")

S.H.:
The further that I go with you
The more I do dislike you.
I think we ought to go and give it best;
Y'ou think that everything is true,
Oh, dear, how very like you!
When I went to bed at night I could'-n't rest;
So my blood begins to boil.
And I tell you straight, friend Doyle
That your beauty I will spoil,
By jove I will!
When my brain is all on fire,
Then my thoughts are. dark and dire;
If you're cute you'll send a wire,
I'm out to kill.
Have a care. C. Doyle, have a care,
I'm not afraid of spooks.

C.D.:
Steady there, steady there,
S. Holmes. I'll tell the lukes."
With ray medium,
Who's a regular Turk,
She's a devil for a fight,
She will make things hum;

(Both)
There'll be dirty work
At the cross roads to-night.

S.H.:
In questions of intelligence
I laugh at your deductions.

C.D.:
That's mighty cheek from you, upon my word!
And as for finding where or whence
To carry out instructions,
Your actions are, to say the least, absurd.

S.H.:
You remind me of a pet
I once bad, a marmoset.
I can almost see it yet.
When youre in view.

C.D.:
Well, there's nothing odd in that.
Why, I've seen a sewer rat
Who, suppose he'd worn a hat,
Looked just like you!

S.H.:

Have a care, C. Doyle, Have a care

C.D. (repeat)

Both (repeat)