He's acruisin' in a pearler with a dirty nigger crew, Abuyin' pearls and copra for a stingy Spanish Jew, And his face is tann'd like leather 'neath a blazin' tropic Sun,...
I've noticed this happen, when everything is black, When I'm down below zero and cannot get back, When I feel like a sort of a National Debt, That will go on for ages and never be met,...