Rhythm King

Old man don't you sleep too long

Old man don't sleep too long

There's a great moon-faced fact

The river's got away and it won't go back!

(Then it's time to depart

In the court of the Rhythm King

My broken heart

Promise him anything

Woe betide!

The lonely highway

The old man cried)

There's a man gone by

Turning on his head, hanging by a coat

He was heard to say

There's a great moon-faced fact

Busted out the back like a paper sack!

Oh man don't wait too long

Nothing be there but the pot gone black

There's a great moon-faced fact

It's pouring out the night from a smoking stack!