The narrator addresses Hubert through telephone silence, musical puns, and questions about life in the shadow of a boss. This complete five-stanza text is the first page of the author's sheet. The second page, Look What's Become of Hubert, is a separately titled 1968 campaign adaptation and is not part of this version.
Whatever became of Hubert?
Has anyone heard a thing?
Once he shone,
On his own,
Now he sits home alone,
And waits for the phone
To ring.
Once a fiery liberal spirit,
Ah, but now when he speaks he must clear it.
Second fiddle's a hard part, I know,
When they don't even give you a bow.
"We must protest this treatment, Hubert,"
Says each newspaper reader.
As someone one remarked to Schubert,
"Take us to your Lieder!"
Whatever became of you, Hubert?
We miss you, so tell us, please,
Are you said, are you cross,
Are you gathering moss,
While you wait for the boss
To sneeze?
Does Lyndon, recalling when he was V.P.,
Say, "I'll do unto you like they did unto me!"?
Do you dream about staging a coup?
Hubert, what happened to you?