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 and Orchestra] [al:Noel Coward, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:07.99]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [00:10.34] [00:11.40]When our victory is ultimately won [00:14.03] [00:15.07]It was just those nasty nazis [00:16.58] [00:17.12]Who persuaded them to fight [00:18.91]And their beethoven and bach are [00:20.44]Really far worse than their bite [00:22.02] [00:22.55]Let's be meek to them [00:24.31]And turn the other cheek to them [00:26.31]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun [00:28.34] [00:29.89]Let's give them full air parity [00:30.98] [00:31.67]And treat the rats with charity [00:33.43]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [00:37.78]We must be kind [00:38.75] [00:39.65]And with an open mind [00:40.98] [00:41.49]We must endeavour to find a way [00:43.30] [00:44.80]To let the germans know that when the war is over [00:48.71]They are not the ones who'll have to pay [00:50.83] [00:52.80]We must be sweet and tactful and discreet [00:56.50]And when they've suffered defeat [00:57.79]We mustn't let them feel upset or ever get [01:00.81]The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them [01:03.30] [01:04.06]Our future policy must be to reinstate them [01:07.21]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [01:09.82] [01:10.70]When we've definately got them on the run [01:12.98] [01:14.35]Let us treat them very kindly [01:15.80] [01:16.41]As we would a valued friend [01:17.65] [01:18.17]We might send them out some bishops [01:19.39] [01:20.03]As a form of lease and lend [01:21.25] [01:22.10]Let's be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them [01:25.77]That sterilization simply isn't done [01:27.81] [01:29.39]Let's help the dirty swine again [01:31.28]To occupy the rhine again [01:33.17]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [01:35.44] [01:37.42]We must be just [01:38.13] [01:39.26]And win their love and trust [01:40.51] [01:41.21]And in additon we must be wise [01:42.73] [01:44.32]And ask the conquered lands to [01:45.85]Join our hands to aid them [01:48.28]That would be a wonderful surprise [01:50.92] [01:52.46]For many years [01:53.10] [01:54.26]They've been in floods of tears [01:55.53] [01:56.17]Because the poor little dears [01:57.62]Have been so wronged and only longed [01:59.48]To cheat the world deplete the world and beat [02:01.80]The world to blazes [02:02.81] [02:03.64]This is the moment [02:04.70]When we ought to sing their praises [02:06.88]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [02:09.36] [02:10.45]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun [02:12.71] [02:14.42]Though they've been a little naughty [02:15.57] [02:16.19]To the czechs and poles and dutch [02:18.14]But I don't suppose those countries [02:19.88]Really minded very much [02:21.08] [02:21.88]Let's be free with them [02:23.65]And share the bbc with them [02:25.60]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun [02:27.47] [02:29.20]Let's soften their defeat again [02:30.56] [02:31.08]And build their bloody fleet again [02:32.90]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [02:35.90] [02:36.68]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [02:39.20] [02:40.01]When the age of peace and plenty has begun [02:42.46] [02:43.88]We must send them steel and oil [02:45.47]And coal and everything they need [02:47.10] [02:47.71]For their peaceable intentions [02:49.23]Can be always guaranteed [02:50.57] [02:51.55]Let's employ with them a sort of strength [02:54.06] [02:54.66]Through joy with them [02:55.37]They're better than us at honest manly fun [02:57.43] [02:59.14]Let's let them feel they're swell again [03:01.09]And bomb us all to hell again [03:02.50] [03:03.04]But don't let's be beastly to the hun