noël coward、Noel Coward《A Bar on the Piccola Marina》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.43]A Bar On The Piccola Marinalive) - Noel Coward----replace by 84005) Carlton Hayes Peter Matz [00:04.53]Now I'd like to sing you a new song [00:05.95]That I wrote just last summer [00:07.52]When I was having a holiday on the island of capri [00:11.76]Each evening I used to sit on the piazza [00:14.53]And watch these hordes of middle-age ladies [00:17.71]Ariving by every boat [00:20.13]Obviously all set to have themselves a ball [00:23.66]So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle [00:30.17]That I wrote this song about a respectable English matron [00:34.07]Who discovered in the nick of time [00:37.15]That life was for living [00:46.34]I'll sing you a song it's not very long [00:48.21]It's moral may disconcert you [00:49.86]Of a mother and wife who for most of her life [00:51.83]Was trained for domestic virtue [00:54.28]She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son [00:57.17]And a much duller husband who at sixty-one [01:00.40]Elected to retire and later on expire [01:05.42]Sing halleluhua heigh-nonny-no [01:08.51]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:10.94]He joined the feathered choir [01:16.73]Having laid him to rest by special request [01:18.90]In a family mausoleum [01:20.76]As his widow repaired to the home they had shared [01:24.05]Her heart sang a gay tedeum [01:27.53]And then in the middle of the funeral wake [01:29.76]While adding some liquor to the tipsy cake [01:32.32]She briskly cried that's done [01:34.17]My life's at last begun [01:37.67]Sing halleluhah heigh-nonny-no [01:40.84]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:43.50]It's time I had some fun [01:47.12]Today though hardly a jolly day [01:49.88]At least I'll set me free [01:53.09]We'll all have a lovely holiday [01:56.92]On the island of capri [02:02.30]In a bar on the piccola marina [02:07.41]Life called to mrs wentworth-brewster [02:11.11]Fate beckoned her and introduced her [02:14.30]Into a rather queer unfamiliar atmosphere [02:17.97]She'd just sit there propping up the bar [02:21.40]Beside a fisherman who sang to a guitar [02:25.50]When accused of having gone too far [02:28.66]She made reply funiculi just fancy me funicula [02:33.79]When he bellowed que bella signorina [02:38.99]Sheer ecstasy at once produced a wild shriek [02:43.35]From mrs wentworth-brewster [02:45.96]Changing her whole demeanour [02:49.41]When both her daughters and her son said please come home mama [02:53.28]She answered rather bibulously who do you think you are [02:57.15]Nobody can afford to be so la-di-bloody-da [03:01.08]In a bar on the piccola marina [03:08.32]Every fisherman cried viva viva and que ragazza [03:12.12]When she sat on the grand piazza [03:13.97]Everybody would rise [03:15.56]Every fisherman said viva viva que belle inglese [03:19.17]Someone even said whoops-a-daisy [03:21.36]Which was quite a surprise [03:23.27]Each evening with some light excuse and beaming with goodwill [03:28.35]She'd just slip into something loose and totter down the hill [03:36.82]To that bar on the piccola marina [03:40.59]Where love came to mrs wentworth-brewster [03:45.44]Hot flushes of delight suffused her [03:48.89]Right round the bend she went picture her astonishment [03:52.75]Day in day out she would gad about [03:55.98]Because she felt she was no longer on the shelf [04:00.25]Night out night in knocking back the gin [04:03.55]She cried funicula funiculi funnic-yourself [04:09.42]Just for fun three young sailors from messina [04:14.49]Bowed low to mrs wentworth-brewster [04:18.17]Said scusi and abruptly goosed her [04:21.60]Then there was quite a scene [04:25.11]Her family in floods of tears cried leave these men mama [04:28.94]She said they are just high-spirited like all italians are [04:33.15]And most of them have a great deal more to offer than papa [04:37.00]In a bar on the piccola marina