Stop! Wait! What?!

>So sorry to interrupt such a festive occation,<

>But I am under strickt instructions to arrest you - <

>for murder!<

>Murder?<

Stop! Wait! What?!

Well I didn't kill Adelbert D'Ysquith

Though that certainly was my intent

Rather hard to digest

that I could be arrested

for something that I only meant.

And it couldn't be poor cousin Asquith

for he graciously died on his own

Was that hole in the ice

just a bit too precise,

was my prescence at Chiselmere known?

>Muder, did you say?<

>I'm afraid so, your lordship.<

Stop! Wait! When?!

I shall doubt I was seen in the harbor

Lady Hyacinth fell in so fast

As for Salome's end

all suspicion would send

them at once to that backstabbing cast!

did the beestings reveal my deception?

was I seen at the weightlifting hall?

How rude to intrude on this lovely reception

for I am the Earl after all.

Yes I am the Earl after all!

Though It's come, I concede, at a cost

But where was my blunder

my weakness, I wonder

is all of it now to be lost?

is all of it now to be lost?

>Murdering... whom?<

>Lord Adlebert D'Ysquith, Eight Earl of Highhurst!<

Stop! Wait! Who?!

For the murder of Adlebert D'Ysquith

were there ever a farce, this is it

I am almost amused

I should stand here accused

of a murder I didn't commit

>But surely, the Earl died of a heartattack?<

>No, your lordship, it WAS foul play.<

Of course, I should like to inquire

by what method he happened to die

but more to the point

what events now conspire

to lead them to think it was I!

I've dispatched half a dozen,

each one a cousin

all of them quite by design.

It is not a defense,

it just makes no sense!

His murder was not one of mine!