Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans] [ar:Noel Coward] [al:Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:08.56]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [00:10.93] [00:12.21]When our victory is ultimately won [00:15.21] [00:15.94]It was just those nasty Nazis [00:18.30]Who persuaded them to fight [00:19.72]And their Beethoven and Bach are [00:21.55]Really far worse than their bite [00:23.45]Let's be meek to them [00:24.92]And turn the other cheek to them [00:26.84]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun [00:30.50]Let's give them full air parity [00:32.32]And treat the rats with charity [00:33.60]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [00:36.46] [00:37.74]We must be kind [00:40.04]And with an open mind [00:41.68] [00:42.31]We must endeavour to find a way [00:44.91] [00:45.54]To let the Germans know that when the war is over [00:49.84]They are not the ones who'll have to pay [00:51.94] [00:53.61]We must be sweet and tactful and discreet [00:57.54]And when they've suffered defeat [00:59.62]We mustn't let them feel upset or ever get [01:01.56]The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them [01:05.08]Our future policy must be to reinstate them [01:08.25]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [01:10.65] [01:11.35]When we've definately got them on the run [01:14.50] [01:15.29]Let us treat them very kindly [01:17.35]As we would a valued friend [01:18.59] [01:19.20]We might send them out some Bishops [01:20.99]As a form of lease and lend [01:22.97]Let's be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them [01:26.81]That sterilization simply isn't done [01:29.54] [01:30.20]Let's help the dirty swine again [01:32.30]To occupy the Rhine again [01:34.03]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [01:36.54] [01:37.75]We must be just [01:39.30] [01:40.33]And win their love and trust [01:42.32]And in additon we must be wise [01:44.00] [01:45.06]And ask the conquered lands to [01:46.70]Join our hands to aid them [01:49.56]That would be a wonderful surprise [01:51.44] [01:53.44]For many years [01:54.38] [01:55.32]They've been in floods of tears [01:57.51]Because the poor little dears [01:58.80]Have been so wronged and only longed [02:00.70]To cheat the world deplete the world and beat [02:02.68]The world to blazes [02:04.21] [02:04.82]This is the moment [02:05.96]When we ought to sing their praises [02:08.21]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:10.61] [02:11.63]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun [02:14.16] [02:15.61]Though they've been a little naughty [02:17.01] [02:17.56]To the Czechs and Poles and Dutch [02:19.45]But I don't suppose those countries [02:20.66]Really minded very much [02:22.71] [02:23.33]Let's be free with them [02:25.09]And share the BBC with them [02:26.81]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun [02:29.04] [02:30.46]Let's soften their defeat again [02:32.18]And build their bloody fleet again [02:34.36]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [02:36.41] [02:37.84]Don't let's be beastly to the Germans [02:41.36]When the age of peace and plenty has begun [02:43.99] [02:45.20]We must send them steel and oil [02:47.40]And coal and everything they need [02:49.16]For their peaceable intentions [02:50.34]Can be always guaranteed [02:52.37] [02:53.04]Let's employ with them a sort of strength [02:56.22]Through joy with them [02:57.27]They're better than us at honest manly fun [02:59.48] [03:00.45]Let's let them feel they're swell again [03:02.64]And bomb us all to hell again [03:04.47]But don't let's be beastly to the hun