What's Going to Happen to the Tots?-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:What's Going to Happen to the Tots?] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:The Noel Coward Collection, Vol. 2: I'll See You Again] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What's Going to Happen to the Tots? - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:07.84]Life today is hectic [00:09.58]Our world is running away [00:10.94] [00:11.47]Only the wise can recognize [00:13.43]The process of decay [00:14.80] [00:15.50]All our dialectic [00:17.18]Is quite unable to say [00:18.65] [00:19.20]Whether we're on the beam or not [00:21.14]Whether we'll rise supreme or not [00:23.07]Whether this new regime or not [00:25.02]Is leading us astray [00:26.53]We all have Frigidaires radios [00:28.52] [00:29.12]Television and movie shows [00:30.82]To shield us from the ultimate abyss [00:32.93] [00:34.11]We have our daily bread neatly cut [00:36.61]Every modern convenience but [00:38.10] [00:38.94]The question that confronts us all is this: [00:41.83] [00:43.72]What's going to happen to the children [00:46.99]When there aren't any more grown-ups [00:49.81] [00:51.22]Having been injected with some rather peculiar glands [00:54.11] [00:54.77]Darling Mum's gone platinum [00:56.75]And dances to all the rumba bands [00:58.66]The songs that she sings at twilight [01:00.46]Would certainly be the highlight [01:02.23]For some of those claques that Elsa Maxwell [01:04.38]Takes around in yachts [01:05.68] [01:06.22]Rockabye rockabye rockabye my darlings [01:10.18]Mother requires a few more shots [01:12.47] [01:14.06]Does it amuse the tiny mites [01:15.86]To see their parents high as kites [01:18.00]What's what's what's going to happen to the tots [01:21.17] [01:29.23]Life today's neurotic a ceaseless battle we wage; [01:32.97]Millions are spent to circumvent [01:34.98]The march of middle age [01:36.67]The fact that we grab each new narcotic [01:38.71]Can only prove in the end [01:40.61]Whether our hormones gel or not [01:42.67]Whether our cells rebel or not [01:44.44]Whether we're blown to hell or not [01:46.38]We'll all be round the bend [01:48.02]From taking Benzedrine Dexamyl [01:50.45]Every possible sleeping pill [01:52.23]To knock us out or knock us into shape [01:54.46] [01:55.35]We all have shots for this shots for that [01:57.96]Shots for making us thin or fat [01:59.67] [02:00.55]But there's one problem that we can't escape [02:03.69] [02:05.39]What's going to happen to the children [02:08.13] [02:08.70]When there aren't any more grown-ups [02:11.33] [02:12.83]Thanks to plastic surgery and uncle's abrupt demise [02:16.05] [02:16.60]Dear Aunt Rose has changed her nose [02:18.63]But doesn't appear to realize [02:20.37]The pleasures that once were heaven [02:22.15]Look silly at sixty-seven [02:24.00]And youthful allure you can't procure [02:26.03]In terms of perms and pots [02:27.96]So lullaby lullaby lullaby my darlings [02:31.77]Try not to scratch those large red spots [02:34.13] [02:35.75]Think of the shock when mummie's face [02:37.64]Is lifted from it's proper place [02:39.72]What's what's what's going to happen to the tots [02:42.80] [02:43.59]What's going to happen to the children [02:46.14] [02:46.69]When there aren't any more grown-ups [02:49.37] [02:50.93]It's bizarre when grandmamma without getting out of breath [02:54.61]Starts to jive at eighty-five and frightens the little ones to death [02:58.64]The police had to send a squad car [03:00.19]When daddy got fried on vodka [03:02.10]And tied a tweed coat round mummie's throat [03:04.06]In several sailor's knots [03:05.66] [03:06.36]Hushabye hushabye hushabye my darlings [03:09.99]Try not to fret and wet your cots [03:12.18] [03:13.75]One day you'll clench your tiny fists [03:15.54] [03:16.26]And murder your psychiatrists [03:18.35] [03:18.98]What's what's what's going to happen to the tots