ABU HASSAN
>From the cartoon film "Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" (1937)
(Sammy Timberg / Tot Seymour / Vee Lawnhurst / Samuel Lerner)


Gus Wickie (as the voice of Abu Hassan) - 1937





ABU HASSAN:
You better lock up your doors today
'Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin' when I go ridin',
Sez me and my forty thieves

Your wives and children and money, too
I'll steal them from you before I'm through
I'm out gunnin', so start in runnin'
>From me and my forty thieves

Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
My gang's the roughest
But I'm the toughest
And that's no lie

Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
You've got to hand it
To this bad bandit
'Cause I'm one terrible guy

(Abu Hassan! Abu Hassan!)

RADIO ANNOUNCER:
Attention everybody!
Attention everybody!
Calling all towns and villages
Beware.....

You better lock up your doors today
'Cause Abu Hassan is on his way
Go in hidin' when he comes ridin'
There's him and his forty thieves

Your wives and children and honey, too
He'll steal them from you before he's through
He's out gunnin', so start in runnin'
>From him and his forty thieves

Abu Hassan! Abu Hassan!
In every village
He'll steal and pillage
There's nought he'll spare

Abu Hassan! Abu Hassan!
If he should spy you
Then we defy you
To cross his path if you dare

ABU HASSAN:
Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
When things get quiet
I start a riot
As I go by

Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
And you'll discover
They run to cover
'Cause I'm a terrible guy!

Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
Quake and quiver
And shake and shiver
Each time I call

Abu Hassan! (Abu Hassan!)
Now make no error
I'm called the terror
Of every village and town






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2014)