Genuine, a fantastic revue

Katzenjammer Kabarett

In the living-room a man on a sofa is laying 
Two strangers at the door and one is knocking 
The man stands and opens the great wooden door 
The one who knows the host tells the other visitor 

An old man with top hat and a dark walking stick 
Gets through the wooden door and says without a trick 
I want to buy the portrait of this old heroine 
I'll never sell this one not even to a king 

since he finished his last work 
Percy's gone wild and casts strange lurks 
Like a mad man who went too far 
His oil is the cause let's take it afar 

come back tomorrow says the painter's friend 
Sir, maybe tomorrow in a sale it'll end 
tonight, we'll try to make his mind change 
and off with the oil, Sir, thou might get a chance 

since he finished his last work 
Percy's gone wild and casts strange lurks 
Like a mad man who went too far 
His oil is the cause let's take it afar 

All eve long young ones tried to convince him 
To let the old man by this sale enrich him 
The talks are loud and words are high 
Nothing to do but leave him tonight 

All alone the painter stares at his work 
There's a woman face with dark and long hair 
Percy takes a book and reads it aloud 
beautiful & perverse, Genuine a slave was made 
Priestess of mysteries bought by a strange old man 
He falls asleep and the portrait comes alive 
And dressed with black ribbons lays by his side