JABRIL:   I am the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler;
          I've stock in trade that I can sell to traveler and settler,
          I know the change to make for copper coins through gems and platinum,
          Ashkanor pence, Valanthi grouts, or even gold-pressed latinum.
          I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters all political,
          Ambassadors and treaties, with an eye for what is critical,
          On any house of 'Al Jabar I speak and surely fascinate,
          Though some have dreadful tendencies to scheme and then assassinate.

PARTY:    Though some have dreadful tendencies to scheme and then assassinate,
	  Though some have dreadful tendencies to scheme and then assassinate,
	  Though some have dreadful tendencies to scheme and then assassi-sassinate,

JABRIL:   I'm very good at talking fast on things that people can't afford;
          I've bought for low and sold for high so all the while my
	            profits soared:
          In short, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          I am the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler. 

PARTY:    In short, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          He is the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler.

JABRIL:   I know our mythic history, the Breakers and the late Tureen;
	  From Comet then to Comet now I spin them in their fate serene,
	  I quote in perfect meter all the stories of Scherezade;
	  And even after forty hours the audience has ne'er a nod;
          I can tell undoubted magic swords from sticks of wood and 
		     stairs of ice
          I know the seven secret words for banishment from Paradise!
	  Then I can sing a song that Dunyazade has writ the patter for,    
	  And keep up with the music while it mangles all the metaphor. 

PARTY:    And keep up with the music while it mangles all the metaphor,
	  And keep up with the music while it mangles all the metaphor,
	  And keep up with the music while it mangles all the meta-metaphor,

JABRIL:   Then I can speak a smattering of every language known to man,
	  Including the improper words that puritans are known to ban:
          In short, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          I am the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler. 

PARTY:    In short, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          He is the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler.

JABRIL:   In fact, when I know what is meant by "usury" and "simony",
	  When I can tell at sight a magic cam'ra from a Lion's Key
          When such affairs as ambushes I only find hilarious,
	  And when I know precisely what is meant by Linatherius, 	
          When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern magery,
	  When I know more of triv'a than a sage who's in a sagery,
          In short, when I've a smattering of elemental salesmanship,
	  You'll say a better Merchant-Peddler has never bailed a ship.

PARTY:    You'll say a better Merchant-Peddler has never bailed a ship,
	  You'll say a better Merchant-Peddler has never bailed a ship,
	  You'll say a better Merchant-Peddler has never bailed a bailed a ship,

JABRIL:   When it comes to fighting Breakers, though I'm plucky and adventury,
          I'm not so sure I want to go and so oaths need not mention me;
          But still, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          I am the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler

PARTY:    But still, when situations need the perfect sort of meddler,
          He is the very model of a modern Merchant-Peddler.