《A Bar on the Piccola Marina》歌词

[00:00:01] Now I'd like to sing you a new song

[00:00:03] That I wrote just last summer

[00:00:04] When I was having a holiday on the island of capri

[00:00:08] Each evening I used to sit on the piazza

[00:00:11] And watch these hordes of middle-age ladies

[00:00:14] Ariving by every boat

[00:00:17] Obviously all set to have themselves a ball

[00:00:20] So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle

[00:00:27] That I wrote this song about a respectable english matron

[00:00:31] Who discovered in the nick of time

[00:00:34] That life was for living

[00:00:43] I'll sing you a song it's not very long

[00:00:44] It's moral may disconcert you

[00:00:46] Of a mother and wife who for most of her life

[00:00:48] Was trained for domestic virtue

[00:00:51] She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son

[00:00:54] And a much duller husband who at sixty-one

[00:00:57] Elected to retire and later on expire

[00:01:02] Sing halleluhua heigh-nonny-no

[00:01:05] Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no

[00:01:07] He joined the feathered choir

[00:01:13] Having laid him to rest by special request

[00:01:15] In a family mausoleum

[00:01:17] As his widow repaired to the home they had shared

[00:01:20] Her heart sang a gay tedeum

[00:01:24] And then in the middle of the funeral wake

[00:01:26] While adding some liquor to the tipsy cake

[00:01:29] She briskly cried that's done

[00:01:31] My life's at last begun

[00:01:34] Sing halleluhah heigh-nonny-no

[00:01:37] Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no

[00:01:40] It's time I had some fun

[00:01:44] Today though hardly a jolly day

[00:01:46] At least I'll set me free

[00:01:50] We'll all have a lovely holiday

[00:01:53] On the island of capri

[00:01:59] In a bar on the piccola marina

[00:02:04] Life called to mrs wentworth-brewster

[00:02:07] Fate beckoned her and introduced her

[00:02:11] Into a rather queer unfamiliar atmosphere

[00:02:14] She'd just sit there propping up the bar

[00:02:17] Beside a fisherman who sang to a guitar

[00:02:22] When accused of having gone too far

[00:02:25] She made reply funiculi just fancy me funicula

[00:02:30] When he bellowed que bella signorina

[00:02:35] Sheer ecstasy at once produced a wild shriek

[00:02:40] From mrs wentworth-brewster

[00:02:42] Changing her whole demeanour

[00:02:46] When both her daughters and her son said please come home mama

[00:02:49] She answered rather bibulously who do you think you are

[00:02:53] Nobody can afford to be so la-di-bloody-da

[00:02:57] In a bar on the piccola marina

[00:03:04] Every fisherman cried viva viva and que ragazza

[00:03:08] When she sat on the grand piazza

[00:03:10] Everybody would rise

[00:03:12] Every fisherman said viva viva que belle inglese

[00:03:15] Someone even said whoops-a-daisy

[00:03:17] Which was quite a surprise

[00:03:19] Each evening with some light excuse and beaming with goodwill

[00:03:25] She'd just slip into something loose and totter down the hill

[00:03:33] To that bar on the piccola marina

[00:03:37] Where love came to mrs wentworth-brewster

[00:03:41] Hot flushes of delight suffused her

[00:03:45] Right round the bend she went picture her astonishment

[00:03:49] Day in day out she would gad about

[00:03:52] Because she felt she was no longer on the shelf

[00:03:56] Night out night in knocking back the gin

[00:03:59] She cried funicula funiculi funnic-yourself

[00:04:05] Just for fun three young sailors from messina

[00:04:10] Bowed low to mrs wentworth-brewster

[00:04:14] Said scusi and abruptly goosed her

[00:04:17] Then there was quite a scene

[00:04:21] Her family in floods of tears cried leave these men mama

[00:04:25] She said they are just high-spirited like all italians are

[00:04:29] And most of them have a great deal more to offer than papa

[00:04:33] In a bar on the piccola marina

[00:04:38] A Bar on the Piccola Marina - Noel Coward and Orchestra