I Want A Situation - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
I WANT A SITUATION. Copyright, 1891, by Hitchcock & McCargo Publishing Company Words by Harry B. Smith. Music by Adam Itzel, Jr. 
I've been a rover the wild world o'er; I've sailed every sea; Yes, Suabia and Arabia are all one to me. Madagascar and Alaska and far Timbuctoo, The Sahara and Ferrara, Shanghai and Foochoo, Scandinavia and Moravia I know and I love. I have wandered, I have pondered in all the above. At last, far away, I am cast away; leave me not in the cold, Or the coroner of this mariner an inquest will hold. 
Chorus. Or the coroner of this mariner an inquest will hold. 
Solo. I want a situation and I want it very badly. However humble the station, I'll accept of it gladly. I want a situation; I am pliable and reliable; I am such a good chap; I'll take anything; I'll do anything; I don't care a rap. 
Chorus. He wants a situation and he wants it very badly, However humble the station, he'll accept of it gladly. He wants a situation; he is pliable and reliable; he is such a good chap. 
I've been a tailor, I've been a jailer; a book agent sleek; I've been a fakir, an undertaker, and a dime-museum freak; A tragedian (a seedy un); I've posted up show bills; I've been reckoned a splendid second in prize-fighting mills; I've peddled matches, put on patches; I've lectured on rum; I've studied surgery, practiced perjury; I've played the bass-drum. Don't speak chillingly, I'd be willingly a sweep as a king; Pray be mollified, I am qualified for 'most anything. 
Chorus. Pray be mollified, he is qualified for 'most anything.-Solo & Cho.