From the 1891 operatic extravaganza “Sinbad”
Words by Harry B. Smith
Music by W. H. Batchelor
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Wachy:
Lyrics
- Come all my little cannibals
And listen unto me
A creature very strange has come
A sailing o’er the sea
A white man you have never seen
Since first your lives began
No wonder when you see him
You will call him Bogie man
Chorus
Hush, hush, hush
Here comes the Bogie man
You’d best lay low
You stand no show
He’ll catch you if he can
Hush, hush, hush
Before his face you scan
Look out, you little cannibals
Here comes the Bogie man
Hush, hush, hush
He’ll catch you if he can
You’d best lay low
You stand no show
Before the Bogie man
Hush, hush, hush
Before his face you scan
Yes, run you little canni als
Here comes the Bogie man
- He has a gun to kill you all
And make you quake with fear
He has a fiery liquor, too
That makes you feel so queer
He wears the oddest clothes my boys
That ever you did scan
You’ll all be frightened most to death
Before the Bogie man
Sung here by T. Craft: