he s been around the world and much of it was queer he got a nasty little rash from a brothel in tangiers a knife it missed his artery in a harem in algiers and from a whore in rotterdam he got gonorrhoea now he works the fairground looks back on his career and anyone who s interested he shows his souvenirs he lost a finger and an arm to a grenadier he lost an eye in africa to a bushman s spear he s been in wicked storms on all the seven seas he s had scurvy and the plague and tropical disease now he works the fairground looks back on his career and anyone who s interested he shows his souvenirs