[Crowd]
Hurrah! Hurroo!
There'll be an execution
It serves him right
The law makes retribution
There's going to be a killing
Hurrah! Hurroo!

[Citizen]
It serves him right
Hurrah! Hurroo!
What did he do?

[Policeman]
He came from Syracuse

[Crowd]
No! No! No!

[Policeman]
Yes! Yes! Yes!
So let him plead
For what's the use?
The sap's from Syracuse!

[Crowd]
The sap's from Syracuse!
[Policeman]
Sh! Listen!
Yes-he dies!

[Crowd]
Good! That's one down!

[Policeman]
He dies tomorrow at sundown
Our rigid laws of Ephesus
Most rightfully refuse
A visa to any citizen
Of uncivilized Syracuse
If any one of us would dare to go
To that barbaric city
He'd get the ax the same as he-
That's why he gets no pity

[Crowd]
Give him the ax, the ax, the ax-
Give him the ax, the ax-

[Policeman]
Unless he can pay a thousand marks
Or borrow it from the local sharks
[Duke]
Why did you come here?

[Aegean]
I had twins

[Crowd]
He had twins
That's nothing much agin him
He had twins

[Policeman]
I never thought he had it in him

[Crowd]
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[Policeman]
Is that why you came here?

[Aegean]
I had twins who looked alike
Couldn't tell one from the other
They had two slaves who looked alike
Couldn't tell one from his brother
But on one unlucky day
We went sailing on the sea
This was an unlucky blunder
For our ship was torn asunder
Just like that!
Just like that!
Just
Like
That!
See?
One young twin went down with me
One went swimming with his mother
We were parted by the sea
Man and wife and slave and brother
Now my one remaining brave boy
Went a-searching with his slave boy
Having lost my son
And wife, too-
I will gladly give my life, too-
Just like that!
Just like that!
Just
Like
That!
See?
I have searched the isles of Greece
]From my home to far-off Samos
Didn't know your local laws
I am just an lgnoramus
I am sinless!
I am twinless!
I am wifeless!
I am lifeless!
I
Am
Glad
To
Die!
He had twins
For them he'd give his life
He had twins
To say nothing of his wife
[Crowd]
Hurrah! Hurroo!
There'll be an execution
It serves him right
The law makes retribution
There's going to be a killing
Hurrah! Hurroo!
What did he do?
He came from Syracuse
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yes! Yes! Yes!