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
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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!
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I've Been To A Marvellous Party (Noël Coward)
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| The Divine Comedy |
