His Excellency Regrets-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:His Excellency Regrets] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:Noel Coward, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]His Excellency Regrets - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:03.61]Now listen please [00:04.21] [00:04.77]I'll tell you confidentially [00:06.13] [00:06.95]How ADCs [00:08.31]Are trained in social grace [00:09.49] [00:10.51]They must be brave [00:11.30] [00:11.81]For daily [00:12.44]They're called upon to save [00:13.75] [00:14.43]His excellency's face [00:16.48] [00:18.17]Any explanation [00:19.33]Of the duties of an ADC [00:21.00] [00:21.51]Proves the complications [00:22.79]That are rife at government house [00:24.29] [00:24.95]Certain situations [00:26.22]They could never let a lady see [00:28.40]There are strange vibrations [00:29.85]In the life of government house [00:31.22] [00:31.85]Truth is often sacrificed [00:33.54]For reasons of diplomacy [00:34.67] [00:35.30]That of course you understand [00:36.92]But all the same [00:37.78]It must be grand [00:38.68]To be [00:39.48]So suave [00:40.40]So calm [00:41.21]So dignified [00:41.74] [00:42.30]If you knew what all that signified [00:45.91]They [00:46.17] [00:48.03]Who break the ninth commandment every day [00:50.04] [00:51.52]Would hang their heads in shame and say [00:53.68]'Forgive [00:54.49]We have [00:55.30]To live [00:55.68] [00:56.22]Officially on feet of clay' [00:58.46] [00:59.92]Every minute [01:00.60]We're made to sin it [01:01.61]Is really very depraved [01:02.74] [01:03.55]But to hell with the lies we tell [01:05.28]His excellency's honour must be saved [01:07.33] [01:14.23]His excellency regrets [01:15.30] [01:15.83]That owing to an attack of gout [01:17.65]He really dare not venture out [01:19.45]On saturday to dine [01:20.29] [01:21.24]His excellency regrets [01:22.21] [01:22.86]That owing to doctor's orders [01:24.15]He cannot attend the mission tea [01:26.51]And also must decline [01:27.50] [01:28.02]Your kind invitation [01:29.37] [01:30.12]For wednesday week [01:31.47]A slight operation [01:32.40] [01:33.17]And poor circulation [01:34.99]Combined with a weedy physique [01:36.75]Has made him unable to speak [01:38.44]All this in addition to what [01:39.62] [01:40.13]The doctors describe as a clot [01:41.52] [01:42.03]Which may disappear [01:42.75]By the end of the year [01:44.02]But may very possibly not [01:45.27] [01:46.18]His excellency regrets [01:47.09] [01:47.81]That owing to his exalted state [01:49.63]He can no more associate [01:51.34]With amiable brunettes [01:52.61] [01:53.24]Walk up walk up [01:54.83]We're willing to take your bets [01:55.99] [01:56.60]That that's one of the principal things his excellency regrets [01:59.54]So now you know [02:00.45] [02:01.00]About the diplomatic corps [02:02.35] [02:03.20]How it can so [02:03.91] [02:04.54]Corrupt the soul of youth [02:05.90] [02:06.70]What happened if [02:07.90]Someday they gave the waiting world a whiff [02:09.99] [02:10.57]Of plain unvarnished truth [02:12.67] [02:14.24]His excellency regrets [02:15.20] [02:15.88]That failing a better alibi [02:17.11] [02:17.70]He must admit he'd rather die [02:19.40]Than open your bazaar [02:20.51] [02:21.14]His excellency regrets [02:22.11] [02:22.80]That lacking enough official scope [02:24.00] [02:24.59]He can't disband the band of hope [02:26.37]No matter where they are [02:27.38] [02:28.01]He frankly despises [02:28.95] [02:30.09]The people he rules [02:31.39]His gorge also rises [02:32.69] [02:33.20]When giving the prizes [02:34.32] [02:34.89]At co educational schools [02:36.19] [02:36.71]To rows of illiterate fools [02:37.86] [02:38.44]And if you should write in the book [02:40.19]He'll give you a murderous look [02:41.49] [02:42.10]For it ruins his day [02:43.15]To be taken away [02:44.08]From his rod and his line and his hook [02:45.49] [02:46.26]His excellency regrets [02:47.11] [02:48.03]He hasn't enough to run the house [02:49.67]Or pay the staff or feed a mouse [02:51.55]Upon the pay he gets [02:52.52] [02:53.44]Hey ho hey ho [02:55.09]He's up to his ears in debts [02:56.18] [02:56.87]But that's one of the least of the things his excellency regrets