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You know, quite for no reason |
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I'm here for the season |
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And high as a kite- ; |
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Living in error |
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With Maud at Cap Ferret |
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(Which couldn't be right)... |
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Everyone's here, and frightfully gay ; |
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Nobody cares what people say, |
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Though the Riviera |
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Seems really much queerer |
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Than Rome at its height! |
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On Wednesday night |
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I went to a marvellous party |
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With Noonoo, and Nada, and Nell - |
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It was in the fresh air, |
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And we went as we were, |
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And we stayed as we were, |
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(Which was hell) |
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Poor Grace started singing at midnight, |
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And she didn't stop singing 'til four - |
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We knew the excitement was bound to begin |
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When Laura got blind on Dubonnet and gin |
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And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin! |
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I couldn't have liked it more! |
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I've been to a marvellous party |
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We played a wonderful game : |
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Maureen disappeared |
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And came back in a beard, |
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And we all had to guess at her name... |
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Cecil arrived wearing armour, |
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Some shells and a black feather boa - |
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Poor Millicent wore a surrealist comb |
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Made of bits of mosaic from St. Peter's in Rome, |
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But the weight was so great that she had to go home! |
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And I couldn't have liked it more! |
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I've been to a marvellous party |
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I must say the fun was intense ; |
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We all had to do |
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What the people we knew |
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Might be doing a hundred years hence... |
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We talked about growing old gracefully, |
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And Elsie-who's seventy-four' |
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Said, 'A) It's a question of being sincere, |
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And B) If you're supple you've got nothing to fear' - |
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Then she swung upside-down from a chandelier! |
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And I couldn't have liked it more! |
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It was the most fabulous excitement |
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I've never seen such a carry-on! |
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Obviously, it couldn't happen |
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Anywhere else but on the Riviera... |
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It was most peculiar - |
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You know, people's behaviour |
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Away from Belgravia |
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Would make you aghast! |
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So much variety, |
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Watching society |
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Scampering past... |
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You know, if you have any mind at all, |
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Gibbon's divine 'Decline And Fall' - |
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Well, it sounds pretty flimsy No more than a whimsy... |
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By way of contrast, |
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On Wednesday last |
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I went to a marvellous party |
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We didn't sit down 'til ten |
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You know, young Bobby Carr |
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Did a stunt at the bar |
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With a lot of extraordinary men! |
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And then Freda arrived with a turtle, |
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(Which shattered us all to the core) |
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And then the duchess passed out at a quarter to three |
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And suddenly Cyril cried 'Fiddle-de-dee !', |
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Then he ripped off his trousers |
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And jumped in the sea! |
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And I couldn't have liked it more! |
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I've been to a marvellous party |
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Elyse made an entrance with May |
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You'd never have guessed |
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From her fisherman's vest |
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That her bust had been whittled away... |
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Poor Lulu got fried on Chianti |
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And talked about esprit de corps ; |
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Louise made a couple of passes at Gus, |
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And Freddie-who hates any kind of a fuss - |
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Did half the Big Apple and twisted his truss - ha ha! |
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I couldn't have liked it more! |