《His Excellency Regrets》歌词

[00:00:00] His Excellency Regrets - Noel Coward and Orchestra

[00:00:03] Now listen please

[00:00:04] I'll tell you confidentially

[00:00:06] How ADCs

[00:00:08] Are trained in social grace

[00:00:10] They must be brave

[00:00:11] For daily

[00:00:12] They're called upon to save

[00:00:14] His excellency's face

[00:00:18] Any explanation

[00:00:19] Of the duties of an ADC

[00:00:21] Proves the complications

[00:00:22] That are rife at government house

[00:00:24] Certain situations

[00:00:26] They could never let a lady see

[00:00:28] There are strange vibrations

[00:00:29] In the life of government house

[00:00:31] Truth is often sacrificed

[00:00:33] For reasons of diplomacy

[00:00:35] That of course you understand

[00:00:36] But all the same

[00:00:37] It must be grand

[00:00:38] To be

[00:00:39] So suave

[00:00:40] So calm

[00:00:41] So dignified

[00:00:42] If you knew what all that signified

[00:00:45] They

[00:00:48] Who break the ninth commandment every day

[00:00:51] Would hang their heads in shame and say

[00:00:53] 'Forgive

[00:00:54] We have

[00:00:55] To live

[00:00:56] Officially on feet of clay'

[00:00:59] Every minute

[00:01:00] We're made to sin it

[00:01:01] Is really very depraved

[00:01:03] But to hell with the lies we tell

[00:01:05] His excellency's honour must be saved

[00:01:14] His excellency regrets

[00:01:15] That owing to an attack of gout

[00:01:17] He really dare not venture out

[00:01:19] On saturday to dine

[00:01:21] His excellency regrets

[00:01:22] That owing to doctor's orders

[00:01:24] He cannot attend the mission tea

[00:01:26] And also must decline

[00:01:28] Your kind invitation

[00:01:30] For wednesday week

[00:01:31] A slight operation

[00:01:33] And poor circulation

[00:01:34] Combined with a weedy physique

[00:01:36] Has made him unable to speak

[00:01:38] All this in addition to what

[00:01:40] The doctors describe as a clot

[00:01:42] Which may disappear

[00:01:42] By the end of the year

[00:01:44] But may very possibly not

[00:01:46] His excellency regrets

[00:01:47] That owing to his exalted state

[00:01:49] He can no more associate

[00:01:51] With amiable brunettes

[00:01:53] Walk up walk up

[00:01:54] We're willing to take your bets

[00:01:56] That that's one of the principal things his excellency regrets

[00:01:59] So now you know

[00:02:01] About the diplomatic corps

[00:02:03] How it can so

[00:02:04] Corrupt the soul of youth

[00:02:06] What happened if

[00:02:07] Someday they gave the waiting world a whiff

[00:02:10] Of plain unvarnished truth

[00:02:14] His excellency regrets

[00:02:15] That failing a better alibi

[00:02:17] He must admit he'd rather die

[00:02:19] Than open your bazaar

[00:02:21] His excellency regrets

[00:02:22] That lacking enough official scope

[00:02:24] He can't disband the band of hope

[00:02:26] No matter where they are

[00:02:28] He frankly despises

[00:02:30] The people he rules

[00:02:31] His gorge also rises

[00:02:33] When giving the prizes

[00:02:34] At co educational schools

[00:02:36] To rows of illiterate fools

[00:02:38] And if you should write in the book

[00:02:40] He'll give you a murderous look

[00:02:42] For it ruins his day

[00:02:43] To be taken away

[00:02:44] From his rod and his line and his hook

[00:02:46] His excellency regrets

[00:02:48] He hasn't enough to run the house

[00:02:49] Or pay the staff or feed a mouse

[00:02:51] Upon the pay he gets

[00:02:53] Hey ho hey ho

[00:02:55] He's up to his ears in debts

[00:02:56] But that's one of the least of the things his excellency regrets