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1925 London
On with the Dance the Musical - Church parade Lyrics
Music and lyrics by Noël Coward.
(Verse:)
On every Sunday morning
See the righteous leave their houses,
With perching hats adorning,
Father boas and dressy blouses,
Their souls devoid of base emotions,
They're on their way to their devotions.
(Refrain: 1)
Church parade, church arade,
See the diffirent types isplayed.
Tall ones, short ones, thin and stout,
Everyone looking quite aggressively devout.
Church parade, church parade,
Truculent and undismayed,
There's Mrs Bowls in grey sateen,
Her hat's the queerest shape
I can remember having seen,
It makes me quite suspicious
As to what it might have been
On Church parade.
(Refrain: 2)
Church parade, church parade,
See the different types portrayed.
Christian women, large and small,
With nothing in their faces
To distinguish them at all.
Church parade, church parade,
Truculent and undismayed,
Those young ladies don't read Freud,
Their virginal mentalities are otherwise employed;
Maybe that's the reason
that they look so unenjoyed
On Church Parade.
Review: On with the Dance the Musical Lyrics
On with the Dance the Musical Lyrics
Cosmopolitan lady
I'm so in love
Poor little rich girl
First love
Couldn't we keep on dancing?
Raspberry time in Runcorn
Spinsters' song
The vicarage dance
Choir boys' song
Even clergymen are naughty now and then
Church parade
Come a little closer
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