Broadside ballad entitled 'The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'

Transcription

The Man that Broke the Bank
at Monte Carlo.

I've just got here, through Paris, from the sunny
southern shore,
I to Monte Carlo went, just to raise my winter's
rent;
Dame Fortune smil'd upon me as she'd never done
before,
And I've now such lots of money, I'm a gent,
Yes, now I've such lots of money, I'm a gent.

Chorus.

As I walk along the Bois Boolong,
With an independent air,
Yon can hear the girls declare?
He must be a millionaire.
You can hear them sigh
And wish to die,
Yon can see them wink the other eye
At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

I stay in doors till after lunch, and then my daily
walk,
To the great Triumphal Arch is one grand triumphal
march,
Observed by each observer with the keenness of   a
hawk,
I'm a mass of money, linen, silk, and starch.
I'm a mass of money, linen, silk, and starch.

I patronised the tables at the Monte Carlo hell,
Till they hadn't got a sou for a Christian or a Jew;
I then flew off to Paris for the charms of mad'moiselle.
Who's the loadstone of my heart?what can I do
When with twenty tongues she swears that she'll
be true ?

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