Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans

[ti:Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra/Leslie Douglas] [al:The Original Hits Vol 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.81]Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans - Noel Coward and Orchestra/Leslie Douglas [00:05.58] [00:07.91]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [00:11.46]Now our victory is ultimately won [00:15.10]It was just those nasty Nazis who persuaded them to fight [00:19.01]And their Beethoven and Bach are really far worse than their bite [00:22.64]Let's be meek to them [00:24.70]And turn the other cheek to them [00:26.51]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun [00:30.02]Let's give them full air parity [00:31.44]And treat the rats with charity [00:33.39]But don't let's be beastly to the Hun [00:37.96]We must be kind [00:39.80]And with an open mind [00:41.76]We must endeavour to find a way [00:44.93]To let the Germans know [00:46.43]That now the war is over [00:48.79]They are not the ones who have to pay [00:53.07]We must be sweet [00:54.86]And tactful and discreet [00:56.73]And now they've suffered defeat [00:58.25]We mustn't let [00:59.06]Them feel upset [00:59.71]Or ever get the feeling [01:01.62]That we're cross with them or hate them [01:04.29]Our future policy must be to reinstate them [01:07.17] [01:07.73]Don't let's be beastuly to the Germans [01:11.01]When we've definitely got them on the run [01:14.64]Let us treat them very kindly as we would a valued friend [01:18.66]We might send them out some Bishops as a form of lease and lend [01:22.47]Let's be sweet to them [01:24.45]And day by day repeat to them [01:26.11]That 'sterilization' simply isn't done [01:29.88]Let's help the dirty swine again [01:31.85]To occupy the Rhine again [01:33.66]But don't let's be beastly to the Hun [01:38.00]We must be just [01:39.81]And win their love and trust [01:41.85]And in additon we must [01:42.87]Be wise [01:44.99]And ask the conquered lands to join our hands to aid them [01:49.06]That would be a wonderful surprise [01:50.91] [01:53.18]For many years [01:54.87]They've been in floods of tears [01:57.02]Because the poor little dears [01:58.23]Have been so wronged and only longed [01:59.69] [02:00.22]To cheat the world [02:01.19]Deplete the world [02:02.15]And beat [02:02.64]The world to blazes [02:04.46]This is the moment when we ought to sing their praises [02:07.76]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:11.14]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun [02:15.22]Though they've been a little naughty to the Czechs and Poles and Dutch [02:19.02]But I don't suppose those countries really minded very much [02:22.85]Let's be free with them and share the B B C with them [02:26.86]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun [02:30.05]Let's soften their defeat again and build their bloody fleet again [02:33.92]But don't let's be beastly to the Hun [02:37.51]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:41.09]When the age of peace and plenty has begun [02:44.86]We must send them steel and oil and coal and everything they need [02:48.78]For their peaceable intentions can be always guaranteed [02:52.71]Let's employ with them a sort of strength through joy with them [02:56.61]They're better than us at honest manly fun [03:00.19]Let's let them feel they're swell again and bomb us all to hell again [03:04.15]But don't let's be beastly to the Hun