If you want to know who we are, We are gentlemen of Japan: On many a vase and jar – On many a screen and fan, We figure in lively paint: Our attitude's queer and quaint – You're wrong if you think it ain't, oh! If you think we are worked by strings, Like a Japanese marionette, You don't understand these things: It is simply Court etiquette. Perhaps you suppose this throng Can't keep it up all day long? If that's your idea, you're wrong, oh!