There was once a little village Lyrics

1934 West End and Broadway
Conversation Piece the Musical - There was once a little village Lyrics

Music and lyrics by Noël Coward.

There was once a little village by the sea.
Where we lived our lives in amiable tranquillity.
We were humbie in our ways
And we swam through all our days
As litde fishes swim—in immobility;

We'watched for gales in the evening sky
And we trimmed our sails till the night went by.

No less, no more,
Than stones on an English shore.

Then whimsical Fate,
Resenting our state,
Decided to break us
And mould and re make us;

Our sweet isolation
From civilisation  
Has all vanished away.

We’re urban and proud,
Supporting a crowd
Of Doxys and Dandvs
And Regency Randys,
Who fiddle and faddle
And piddle and paddle
And turn night into day.

The Pavilion
Cost a million
As a monument to Art,

And the wits here
Say it sits here
Like an Oriental tart!

The dashing “beau monde ”
Has ruffled our pond.

And even the turbot
Know Mrs. Fitzherbert.

We’re richer than ever before
But Brighton is Brighton no more.


Review: Conversation Piece the Musical Lyrics

Conversation Piece the Musical Lyrics

I'll follow my secret heart
Regency Rakes
Charming! Charming! Charming!
There's always something fishy about the French
English lesson – The tree is in the garden
There was once a little village
Mothers and wives
Nevermore