Even clergymen are naughty now and then Lyrics

1925 London
On with the Dance the Musical - Even clergymen are naughty now and then Lyrics

Music and lyrics by Noël Coward.

(Verse:)
People have a wrong idea of Members of the Cloth;
It's dyan enjoyable profession.
And though we don't indulge in much frivolity and froth
We really haven't cause for much depression.
Our lives are full of jollity and gaiety and fun,
With christenings and funerals and such,
There's not a week goes by
In which someone doesn't die,
So we really mustn't grumble very much.

(Refrain:)
When we wake up in the morning
And the birds are trilling
There is something thrilling
In the air;

CURATE:
I can feel my pulses starting
As I struggle with my parting,
And my thoughts go gaily darting
Here and there.
When we visit village invalids on New Year's Day
We're really just as gay
As other men;

VICAR:
Mrs Jones whom I was chaf
Fing had a fit and died from laughing.

BOTH:
Even clergymen are naughty
Now and then.

VICAR:
The villagers will never disregard a festive cause
To join in any jumble sale or raflle,
And every Christmas evening
I appear as Santa Claus,
A good disguise which never fails to me.
A whist drive in the Parish Room
Could only be described
As a positively brilliant affair.
And when old Mrs Meyer
Gives a picnic for the choir
It's really almost more than we can bear.

BOTH:
When we wake up in the morning
And the weather's bad
We're really always glad
To be alive.

VICAR:
With a faithful repetition
Of our family tradition
Every year a new addition
Will arrive.

BOTH:
Though we fill the cup of duty to the very brim
Ideas may sometimes swim Into our ken.

CURATE:
When our thoughts are most volcanic
We remember in our panic
Even clergymen ate naughty
Now and then.


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