A song based on "Old Trouper", poem by Robert William Service. Classical pieces used in this song : Franz Schubert - Fantasia in F minor, D. 940 (Op. 103), for Piano Four-Hands Franz Schubert - Trio n°2, op. 100 Haendel - Sarabande Lyrics : I was Mojeska's leading man And famous parts I used to play, But now I do the best I can To earn my bread from day to day; Here in this Burg of Breaking Hears, Where one wins as a thousand fail, I play a score of scurvy parts Till Time writes Finis to my tale. My wife is dead, my daughter wed, With heaps of trouble of their own; And though I hold aloft my head I'm humble, scared and all alone . . . To-night I burn each photograph, Each record of my former fame, And oh, how bitterly I laugh And feed them to the hungry flame! Behold how handsome I was then - What glowing eye, what noble mien; I towered above my fellow men, And proudly strode the pai