Noël Coward - Children of the Ritz Lyrics

1932 West End
Words and Music the Musical - Children of the Ritz Lyrics


Music and lyrics by Noël Coward.

Children of the Ritz
Children of the Ritz
Sleek and civilised
Fretfully surprised
Though Mr. Molyneux has gowned us
The world is tumbling around us
Without a sou
What can we do?
We’ll soon be begging for a crust
We can’t survive
And keep alive
Without the darling Banker’s trust

In the lovely gay
Years before the Crash
Mr. Cartier
Never asked for cash
Now shops we patronised are serving us with writs
What’s going to happen to the Children of the Ritz?

We owe Elizabeth Arden
Several thousand pounds
Though we can’t pay
We just blow in
If we’re passing that way
While we’re going
On our rounds
We’ll persevere
Till our arteries harden

Then we shan’t much care
Whether our chins
Have a crinkle in them
Whether our skins
Have a wrinkle here and there
We shan’t much mind
For we shall then have left our dreary lives behind.

Children of the Ritz
Children of the Ritz
Vaguely debonair
Only half aware

That all we’ve counted on is breaking into bits
What shall we do
What’s going to happen to
The foolish little Children of the Ritz?



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