gertrude lawrence、Ramones《A Bar On The Piccola Marina》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:02.71]Now I'd like to sing you a new song [00:04.21]That I wrote just last summer [00:05.80]When I was having a holiday on the island of capri [00:09.97]Each evening I used to sit on the piazza [00:12.72]And watch these hordes of middle-age ladies [00:15.99]Ariving by every boat [00:18.34]Obviously all set to have themselves a ball [00:21.79]So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle [00:28.41]That I wrote this song about a respectable english matron [00:32.29]Who discovered in the nick of time [00:35.28]That life was for living [00:44.42]I'll sing you a song it's not very long [00:45.95]It's moral may disconcert you [00:47.94]Of a mother and wife who for most of her life [00:49.75]Was trained for domestic virtue [00:52.33]She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son [00:55.63]And a much duller husband who at sixty-one [00:58.42]Elected to retire and later on expire [01:03.51]Sing halleluhua heigh-nonny-no [01:06.44]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:08.75]He joined the feathered choir [01:14.75]Having laid him to rest by special request [01:16.76]In a family mausoleum [01:18.53]As his widow repaired to the home they had shared [01:21.98]Her heart sang a gay tedeum [01:25.47]And then in the middle of the funeral wake [01:27.40]While adding some liquor to the tipsy cake [01:30.30]She briskly cried that's done [01:32.16]My life's at last begun [01:35.50]Sing halleluhah heigh-nonny-no [01:38.53]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:41.45]It's time I had some fun [01:45.06]Today though hardly a jolly day [01:47.87]At least I'll set me free [01:51.07]We'll all have a lovely holiday [01:55.01]On the island of capri [02:00.43]In a bar on the piccola marina [02:05.24]Life called to mrs wentworth-brewster [02:08.97]Fate beckoned her and introduced her [02:12.15]Into a rather queer unfamiliar atmosphere [02:15.69]She'd just sit there propping up the bar [02:18.84]Beside a fisherman who sang to a guitar [02:23.18]When accused of having gone too far [02:26.44]She made reply funiculi just fancy me funicula [02:31.47]When he bellowed que bella signorina [02:36.18]Sheer ecstasy at once produced a wild shriek [02:41.05]From mrs wentworth-brewster [02:43.38]Changing her whole demeanour [02:47.08]When both her daughters and her son said please come home mama [02:50.75]She answered rather bibulously who do you think you are [02:54.64]Nobody can afford to be so la-di-bloody-da [02:58.26]In a bar on the piccola marina [03:05.85]Every fisherman cried viva viva and que ragazza [03:09.46]When she sat on the grand piazza [03:11.29]Everybody would rise [03:13.01]Every fisherman said viva viva que belle inglese [03:16.53]Someone even said whoops-a-daisy [03:18.33]Which was quite a surprise [03:20.85]Each evening with some light excuse and beaming with goodwill [03:26.18]She'd just slip into something loose and totter down the hill [03:34.29]To that bar on the piccola marina [03:38.31]Where love came to mrs wentworth-brewster [03:42.99]Hot flushes of delight suffused her [03:46.35]Right round the bend she went picture her astonishment [03:50.13]Day in day out she would gad about [03:53.43]Because she felt she was no longer on the shelf [03:57.67]Night out night in knocking back the gin [04:00.69]She cried funicula funiculi funnic-yourself [04:06.77]Just for fun three young sailors from messina [04:11.72]Bowed low to mrs wentworth-brewster [04:15.50]Said scusi and abruptly goosed her [04:18.81]Then there was quite a scene [04:22.54]Her family in floods of tears cried leave these men mama [04:26.29]She said they are just high-spirited like all italians are [04:30.72]And most of them have a great deal more to offer than papa [04:34.47]In a bar on the piccola marina [04:39.38]A Bar on the Piccola Marina - Noel Coward and Orchestra