《His Excellency Regrets》歌词

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

[00:00:01] Written by：Noel Coward

[00:00:04] Now listen please

[00:00:05] I'll tell you confidentially

[00:00:07] How ADCs

[00:00:09] Are trained in social grace

[00:00:11] They must be brave

[00:00:12] For daily

[00:00:13] They're called upon to save

[00:00:15] His excellency's face

[00:00:19] Any explanation

[00:00:20] Of the duties of an ADC

[00:00:22] Proves the complications

[00:00:23] That are rife at government house

[00:00:25] Certain situations

[00:00:27] They could never let a lady see

[00:00:29] There are strange vibrations

[00:00:30] In the life of government house

[00:00:32] Truth is often sacrificed

[00:00:34] For reasons of diplomacy

[00:00:36] That of course you understand

[00:00:37] But all the same

[00:00:38] It must be grand

[00:00:39] To be

[00:00:40] So suave

[00:00:41] So calm

[00:00:42] So dignified

[00:00:43] If you knew what all that signified

[00:00:46] They

[00:00:49] Who break the ninth commandment every day

[00:00:52] Would hang their heads in shame and say

[00:00:54] 'Forgive

[00:00:55] We have

[00:00:56] To live

[00:00:57] Officially on feet of clay'

[00:01:00] Every minute

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

[00:01:02] Is really very depraved

[00:01:04] But to hell with the lies we tell

[00:01:06] His excellency's honour must be saved

[00:01:15] His excellency regrets

[00:01:16] That owing to an attack of gout

[00:01:18] He really dare not venture out

[00:01:20] On Saturday to dine

[00:01:22] His excellency regrets

[00:01:23] That owing to doctor's orders

[00:01:25] He cannot attend the mission tea

[00:01:27] And also must decline

[00:01:29] Your kind invitation

[00:01:30] For Wednesday week

[00:01:32] A slight operation

[00:01:34] And poor circulation

[00:01:36] Combined with a weedy physique

[00:01:37] Has made him unable to speak

[00:01:39] All this in addition to what

[00:01:41] The doctors describe as a clot

[00:01:43] Which may disappear

[00:01:43] By the end of the year

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

[00:01:47] His excellency regrets

[00:01:48] That owing to his exalted state

[00:01:50] He can no more associate

[00:01:52] With amiable brunettes

[00:01:54] Walk up walk up

[00:01:55] We're willing to take your bets

[00:01:57] That that's one of the principal things his excellency regrets

[00:02:00] So now you know

[00:02:02] About the diplomatic corps

[00:02:04] How it can so

[00:02:05] Corrupt the soul of youth

[00:02:07] Imagine if

[00:02:09] Someday they gave the waiting world a whiff

[00:02:11] Of plain unvarnished truth

[00:02:15] His excellency regrets

[00:02:16] That failing a better alibi

[00:02:18] He must admit he'd rather die

[00:02:20] Than open your bazaar

[00:02:22] His excellency regrets

[00:02:23] That lacking enough official scope

[00:02:25] He can't disband the band of hope

[00:02:27] No matter where they are

[00:02:29] He frankly despises

[00:02:31] The people he rules

[00:02:32] His gorge also rises

[00:02:34] When giving the prizes

[00:02:36] At co educational schools

[00:02:37] To rows of illiterate fools

[00:02:39] And if you should write in the book

[00:02:41] He'll give you a murderous look

[00:02:43] For it ruins his day

[00:02:44] To be taken away

[00:02:45] From his rod and his line and his hook

[00:02:47] His excellency regrets

[00:02:49] He hasn't enough to run the house

[00:02:50] Or pay the staff or feed a mouse

[00:02:52] Upon the pay he gets

[00:02:54] Hey ho hey ho

[00:02:56] He's up to his ears in debts

[00:02:57] But that's one of the least of the things his excellency regrets