The Gay Gondolier-Ian Wallace

[00:03.60]La la la la la la la la la la la la la laro [00:10.27]Gondolier he he he he ha ha ha ha [00:18.19]A gondola owner in venice [00:20.58]I had been since the age of discretion thirteen [00:25.52]But today gondoliering in venice [00:27.75]Is a most overcrowded profession [00:30.74]You can't swing a cat sir around the piazza [00:33.81]The palace of doges is full of old fogies [00:37.11]And by the san marco there's nowhere to park oh [00:42.64]It wasn't for me [00:44.96]So I went out to sea [00:47.32]And caused a commotion by crossing the ocean [00:51.52]Becoming the only original gondolier gondolier [00:59.10]On the manchester ship canal [01:09.22]On board my gondola I serve Coca Cola [01:12.52]In flagons which once held chianti [01:15.37]And for five bob a night I would sing or recite [01:18.62]From a bowdlerised version of dante [01:23.24]The transport commission gave me their permission [01:26.43]One gondola canal or thamesis [01:29.67]And when I made obeisance they threw in my licence [01:33.20]For vino consumed on the premises [01:37.94]When I sing unsoberly la donna mobile [01:43.43]People in houseboats complain [01:46.16]Of my gay barcarolle [01:48.30]So I stick in my pole [01:50.97]And sing it again and again [01:55.76]La la la la la la la la la la la la la laro [02:02.73]Gondolier he he he he ha ha ha [02:09.78]A gay gondolier as I shoot every weir [02:13.00]And I shout as I sit in venezia [02:15.94]Oh who wants to fondle a girl in my gondola [02:19.70]Up come the river policia [02:22.31]Oh bacciare inside the cabina [02:25.40]The Englishman travels in style [02:28.15]With a young senorita [02:30.54]My gondolin meter [02:32.89]Is clicking up three pence a mile [02:37.32]So tied to a jetty I eat my spaghetti [02:40.87]And drink till I'm properly plastered [02:43.57]Shouting dog off on starches to bargees on barges [02:47.47]Who shouting reply you're a [02:49.80]It's a lie [02:52.83]For it's ever so much fun you will find [02:56.08]On my anglo venetian blind [03:04.88]