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“1003”

Under normal circumstances
I like making the advances
And to have my prey at least put up a fight,
But as immoral as I may be
This young girl is still a baby
And I must admit that doesn’t seem quite right.
Though my record of seductions
Is so staggeringly high
That no man will ever match my score,
Still I need to tell you something
That may help to clarify
Why I feel I need to add one more.1003
1003
Da Ponte and Mozart have credited me
With wooing, seducing,
Subduing and goosing
1003.
Plucky me.Before you distain
Please let me explain
That number I quoted includes only Spain.
An Italy sortie
Bagged two hundred forty
Plus hundreds by chance
While in France.

I’ve tried reading at night
Played billiards till two,
Tried quaffing a few.
But drinking’s fatiguing
And books unintriguing
And man must have something to do.

So:
1003
But oh the ennui
One feels after years of this too solid glee.
You’d think I’d grow tired
Of being desired
Besieged and besought –
Well, I’m not.

An evening that’s lewd
Is like Chinese food –
A half hour later one’s passion’s renewed.
If your girls are Spanish
And suddenly vanish
They all will have gone
With Don Juan.

Some are ladies with style
So clearly obsessed
With having the best.
And some pour me brandy
For being so handy
At helping get things off their chest.

Oh!
1003
1003
A score that should stand up throughout history.
But what is absurd is
My thousand and third is
A girl from some region up north
Who, as we got dressed,
Said she wasn’t impressed
And that I was her thousand and fourth!