Lah-Di-Dah-Jake Thackray

[ti:Lah-Di-Dah] [ar:Jake Thackray] [al:Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lah-Di-Dah - Jake Thackray [00:12.36]Now we're agreed that we're in love [00:15.42]We'll have to face the lah di dah [00:18.04] [00:19.42]The eyewash all of the fancy pantomime [00:24.24]I love you very much [00:25.72] [00:28.24]I'll try love I'll bill and coo [00:31.47]With your gruesome auntie susan [00:33.89]I'll stay calm I'll play it cool [00:37.23] [00:39.10]I'll let your tetchy uncles [00:42.10]Get me back up cross my heart [00:44.40] [00:45.27]And I shan't get shirty when [00:47.69]They say I look peculiar [00:50.18]I'll be nice to your mother [00:53.31]I'll come all over lah di dah [00:55.82] [00:57.42]Although she always gets up me nose [01:02.08]I love you very much [01:03.69] [01:06.03]And so I'll smile and I'll acquiesce [01:10.76]When she invites me to caress [01:13.02] [01:13.82]Her scabby cat [01:15.56] [01:16.75]I'll sit still while she knits [01:19.20] [01:19.80]And witters cross my heart [01:21.81] [01:22.84]And I shan't lay a finger on the [01:25.67]Crabby old batface [01:27.41]I'll be polite to your daddy [01:31.11]Frightfully lah di dah [01:33.44] [01:34.86]Although he always bores me to my boots [01:39.50]I love you very much [01:43.51]And so I won't boo and hiss [01:46.87]When he starts to reminisce [01:48.81]I won't drop off I won't flare up [01:53.74]The runs he used to score [01:55.87]And how he won the war cross my heart [01:58.76] [01:59.83]But I'll have to grit me teeth when [02:02.41]He goes on about his rupture [02:03.82] [02:04.87]I'll behave at the wedding breakfast [02:08.98]I'll be lah di dah [02:10.88] [02:11.89]So help me hearty toasts and risky jokes [02:16.66]I love you very much [02:20.80]So help me I'll force a laugh [02:23.96]For the flicking photographs [02:26.03]So have no fear I won't turn tail [02:30.71]I won't run amuck when the females chuck [02:34.17]Confetti in my ears [02:35.72] [02:37.17]And cross me heart love [02:39.48]I'll keep off the pale ale [02:42.02]When we're off on our own [02:45.18] [02:45.69]No more lah di bloody dah [02:48.71]I promise we just won't have the time [02:53.49]We won't have time for such [02:55.68]Such fancy pantomimes [02:58.09]I'll love you far too much