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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Kings of Chickeraboo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were three niggers of Chickeraboo -<br>PACIFICO, BANG-BANG, POPCHOP - who<br>Exclaimed, one terribly sultry day,<br>"Oh, let's be kings in a humble way."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first was a highly-accomplished "bones,"<br>The next elicited banjo tones,<br>The third was a quiet, retiring chap,<br>Who danced an excellent break-down "flap."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"We niggers," said they, "have formed a plan<br>By which, whenever we like, we can<br>Extemporise kingdoms near the beach,<br>And then we'll collar a kingdom each.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Three casks, from somebody else's stores,<br>Shall represent our island shores,<br>Their sides the ocean wide shall lave,<br>Their heads just topping the briny wave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Great Britain's navy scours the sea,<br>And everywhere her ships they be;<br>She'll recognise our rank, perhaps,<br>When she discovers we're Royal Chaps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If to her skirts you want to cling,<br>It's quite sufficient that you're a king;<br>She does not push inquiry far<br>To learn what sort of king you are."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A ship of several thousand tons,<br>And mounting seventy-something guns,<br>Ploughed, every year, the ocean blue,<br>Discovering kings and countries new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The brave REAR-ADMIRAL BAILEY PIP,<br>Commanding that magnificent ship,<br>Perceived one day, his glasses through,<br>The kings that came from Chickeraboo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Dear eyes!" said ADMIRAL PIP, "I see<br>Three flourishing islands on our lee.<br>And, bless me! most remarkable thing!<br>On every island stands a king!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Come, lower the Admiral's gig," he cried,<br>"And over the dancing waves I'll glide;<br>That low obeisance I may do<br>To those three kings of Chickeraboo!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Admiral pulled to the islands three;<br>The kings saluted him graciousLEE.<br>The Admiral, pleased at his welcome warm,<br>Unrolled a printed Alliance form.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Your Majesty, sign me this, I pray -<br>I come in a friendly kind of way -<br>I come, if you please, with the best intents,<br>And QUEEN VICTORIA'S compliments."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The kings were pleased as they well could be;<br>The most retiring of the three,<br>In a "cellar-flap" to his joy gave vent<br>With a banjo-bones accompaniment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great REAR-ADMIRAL BAILEY PIP<br>Embarked on board his jolly big ship,<br>Blue Peter flew from his lofty fore,<br>And off he sailed to his native shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ADMIRAL PIP directly went<br>To the Lord at the head of the Government,<br>Who made him, by a stroke of a quill,<br>BARON DE PIPPE, OF PIPPETONNEVILLE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The College of Heralds permission yield<br>That he should quarter upon his shield<br>Three islands, VERT, on a field of blue,<br>With the pregnant motto "Chickeraboo."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ambassadors, yes, and attaches, too,<br>Are going to sail for Chickeraboo.<br>And, see, on the good ship's crowded deck,<br>A bishop, who's going out there on spec.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And let us all hope that blissful things<br>May come of alliance with darky kings,<br>And, may we never, whatever we do,<br>Declare a war with Chickeraboo!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539055" data-title="The Three Kings of Chickeraboo de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="There were three niggers of Chickeraboo - PACIFICO, BANG-BANG, POPCHOP - who Exclaimed, one terribly sultry day, "Oh, let's be kings in a humble way." The first was a highly-accomplished "bones," The next elicited banjo tones,..."></div> </div> </div>
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