A Bar on the Piccola Marina-Noel Coward

[ti:A Bar on the Piccola Marina] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:Someday I'll Find You ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.70]Now I'd like to sing you a new song [00:03.20]That I wrote just last summer [00:04.78]When I was having a holiday on the island of capri [00:08.95]Each evening I used to sit on the piazza [00:11.06] [00:11.70]And watch these hordes of middle-age ladies [00:14.97]Ariving by every boat [00:16.31] [00:17.32]Obviously all set to have themselves a ball [00:19.43] [00:20.77]So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle [00:24.29] [00:27.39]That I wrote this song about a respectable english matron [00:31.27]Who discovered in the nick of time [00:34.26]That life was for living [00:36.89] [00:43.40]I'll sing you a song it's not very long [00:44.93]It's moral may disconcert you [00:46.92]Of a mother and wife who for most of her life [00:48.73]Was trained for domestic virtue [00:50.76] [00:51.31]She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son [00:54.04] [00:54.61]And a much duller husband who at sixty-one [00:57.40]Elected to retire and later on expire [01:01.85] [01:02.49]Sing halleluhua heigh-nonny-no [01:05.42]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:07.73]He joined the feathered choir [01:11.94] [01:13.73]Having laid him to rest by special request [01:15.74]In a family mausoleum [01:16.52] [01:17.51]As his widow repaired to the home they had shared [01:20.96]Her heart sang a gay tedeum [01:23.86] [01:24.45]And then in the middle of the funeral wake [01:26.38]While adding some liquor to the tipsy cake [01:28.76] [01:29.28]She briskly cried that's done [01:31.14]My life's at last begun [01:33.61] [01:34.48]Sing halleluhah heigh-nonny-no [01:37.51]Heigh-nonny-no heigh-nonny-no [01:40.43]It's time I had some fun [01:43.12] [01:44.04]Today though hardly a jolly day [01:46.85]At least I'll set me free [01:48.51] [01:50.05]We'll all have a lovely holiday [01:53.99]On the island of capri [01:58.54] [01:59.41]In a bar on the piccola marina [02:02.83] [02:04.22]Life called to mrs wentworth-brewster [02:07.27] [02:07.95]Fate beckoned her and introduced her [02:11.13]Into a rather queer unfamiliar atmosphere [02:14.67]She'd just sit there propping up the bar [02:17.82]Beside a fisherman who sang to a guitar [02:21.24] [02:22.16]When accused of having gone too far [02:25.42]She made reply funiculi just fancy me funicula [02:29.50] [02:30.45]When he bellowed que bella signorina [02:35.16]Sheer ecstasy at once produced a wild shriek [02:39.47] [02:40.03]From mrs wentworth-brewster [02:42.36]Changing her whole demeanour [02:46.06]When both her daughters and her son said please come home mama [02:49.73]She answered rather bibulously who do you think you are [02:53.62]Nobody can afford to be so la-di-bloody-da [02:55.70] [02:57.24]In a bar on the piccola marina [03:01.66] [03:04.83]Every fisherman cried viva viva and que ragazza [03:08.44]When she sat on the grand piazza [03:10.27]Everybody would rise [03:12.00]Every fisherman said viva viva que belle inglese [03:15.52]Someone even said whoops-a-daisy [03:17.32]Which was quite a surprise [03:19.83]Each evening with some light excuse and beaming with goodwill [03:25.16]She'd just slip into something loose and totter down the hill [03:32.03] [03:33.27]To that bar on the piccola marina [03:37.29]Where love came to mrs wentworth-brewster [03:41.28] [03:41.97]Hot flushes of delight suffused her [03:45.33]Right round the bend she went picture her astonishment [03:49.11]Day in day out she would gad about [03:52.41]Because she felt she was no longer on the shelf [03:55.32] [03:56.65]Night out night in knocking back the gin [03:59.67]She cried funicula funiculi funnic-yourself [04:03.66] [04:05.75]Just for fun three young sailors from messina [04:09.02] [04:10.70]Bowed low to mrs wentworth-brewster [04:14.48]Said scusi and abruptly goosed her [04:17.79]Then there was quite a scene [04:20.98] [04:21.52]Her family in floods of tears cried leave these men mama [04:25.27]She said they are just high-spirited like all italians are [04:29.70]And most of them have a great deal more to offer than papa [04:33.45]In a bar on the piccola marina [04:38.36]A Bar on the Piccola Marina - Noel Coward and Orchestra [04:40.11]