Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans-Noel Coward/Carroll Gibbons

[ti:Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans] [ar:Noel Coward,Carroll Gibbons] [al:The Best of Coward and Novello] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - Noel Coward/Carroll Gibbons [00:07.81]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [00:11.30]When our victory is ultimately won [00:14.16] [00:14.97]It was just those nasty Nazis [00:17.15]Who persuaded them to fight [00:18.83]And their Beethoven and Bach are [00:20.62]Really far worse than their bite [00:22.05] [00:22.61]Let's be meek to them [00:24.38]And turn the other cheek to them [00:26.18]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun [00:28.93] [00:29.75]Let's give them full air parity [00:31.54]And treat the rats with charity [00:33.37]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [00:36.55] [00:37.70]We must be kind [00:38.70] [00:39.56]And with an open mind [00:41.50]We must endeavour to find a way [00:43.83] [00:44.69]To let the Germans know that when the war is over [00:48.57]They are not the ones who'll have to pay [00:51.25] [00:52.72]We must be sweet and tactful and discreet [00:56.44]And when they've suffered defeat [00:57.77]We mustn't let them feel upset or ever get [01:00.68]The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them [01:03.14] [01:03.86]Our future policy must be to reinstate them [01:07.31]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [01:10.61]When we've definately got them on the run [01:13.61] [01:14.24]Let us treat them very kindly [01:16.27]As we would a valued friend [01:18.10]We might send them out some Bishops [01:19.95]As a form of lease and lend [01:21.43] [01:21.99]Let's be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them [01:25.77]That sterilization simply isn't done [01:28.20] [01:29.39]Let's help the dirty swine again [01:31.26]To occupy the Rhine again [01:33.14]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [01:35.83] [01:37.50]We must be just [01:39.20]And win their love and trust [01:41.21]And in additon we must be wise [01:43.31] [01:44.29]And ask the conquered lands to [01:45.87]Join our hands to aid them [01:47.81] [01:48.32]That would be a wonderful surprise [01:51.10] [01:52.42]For many years [01:54.20]They've been in floods of tears [01:56.23]Because the poor little dears [01:57.58]Have been so wronged and only longed [01:59.55]To cheat the world deplete the world and beat [02:01.78]The world to blazes [02:02.93] [02:03.64]This is the moment [02:04.65]When we ought to sing their praises [02:07.02]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:09.56] [02:10.38]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun [02:13.37] [02:14.35]Though they've been a little naughty [02:15.64] [02:16.25]To the Czechs and Poles and Dutch [02:18.11]I don't suppose those countries [02:19.87]Really minded very much [02:21.32] [02:21.93]Let's be free with them [02:23.78]And share the BBC with them [02:25.62]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun [02:28.30] [02:29.21]Let's soften their defeat again [02:31.11]And build their bloody fleet again [02:32.96]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [02:35.92] [02:36.63]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:39.38] [02:40.04]When the age of peace and plenty has begun [02:43.05] [02:43.94]We must send them steel and oil [02:45.63]And coal and everything they need [02:47.71]For their peaceable intentions [02:49.35]Can be always guaranteed [02:51.67]Let's employ with them a sort of strength [02:54.48]Through joy with them [02:55.51]They're better than us at honest manly fun [02:58.47] [02:59.16]Let's let them feel they're swell again [03:01.14]And bomb us all to hell again [03:03.09]But don't let's be beastly to the hun