It's A Fine Life - from Oliver: The Musical-Union Of Sound

[ti:It's a Fine Life] [ar:The Hit Co.] [al:Super Songs from the Stage and Screen, Vol. 8] [offset:0] [00:00.60]It's a Fine Life - The Hit Co. [00:02.38]Plummy and slam! [00:02.74]Nancy! Wake up boys! The ladies is 'ere. [00:06.40]Ladies?! Cor! 'Ark at him! [00:09.03]'Ere, we'll have less of that if you don't mind! [00:11.07]'Ere, so where's the gin, then, Fagin? [00:12.85]All in moderation, my dear, all in moderation. [00:14.96]Too much gin can be a dangerous thing for a pure, young girl. [00:20.14]Ooh, and what's wrong with a bit of danger then, eh, Mr. Fagin? [00:23.01]After all it's about the only excitement we get. [00:25.36]And who would deny us that small pleasure? [00:28.52] [00:30.21]Small pleasures, small pleasures [00:32.65]Who would deny us these? [00:34.37] [00:35.38]Gin toddies -- large measuress -- [00:38.18]No skimpin' if you please! [00:39.84] [00:40.77]I rough it, I love it [00:43.45]Life is a game of chance. [00:45.43] [00:46.24]I never tire of it -- [00:49.45]Leading this merry dance. [00:51.37] [00:52.40]If you don't mind having to go without things [00:55.36]It's a fine life. [00:56.70] [00:57.25]It's a fine life. [00:58.06]Tho' it ain't all jolly old pleasure outings... [01:00.56]It's a fine life [01:01.88]It's a fine life. [01:03.25]When you got someone to love [01:05.36] [01:05.87]You forget your cares and strife [01:07.73] [01:08.69]Let the prudes look down on us [01:10.62]Let the wide world frown on us [01:11.84]It's a fine, [01:12.56]Fine life! [01:13.81] [01:15.47]Ain't that right, Bet? Go on, you tell 'em girl. [01:17.56] [01:18.85]Who cares if straightlaces [01:20.75]Sneer at us in the street? [01:22.66] [01:23.85]Fine airs and fine graces [01:26.59]Don't have to sin to eat. [01:28.14] [01:29.32]We wander through London [01:31.98]Who knows what we many find? [01:33.73] [01:34.74]There's pockets left undone [01:37.62]On many a behind. [01:39.35] [01:40.81]If you don't mind taking it as it turns out, [01:43.94]It's a fine life! [01:45.20]It's a fine life! [01:46.37]Keep the candle burning until it burns out [01:49.11]It's a fine life. [01:50.48]It's a fine life. [01:51.98]Though you sometimes do come by [01:53.88] [01:54.46]The occasional black eye [01:56.61] [01:57.28]You can always cover one [01:58.94]'Til he blacks the other one [02:00.29]But you don't dare cry. [02:01.77] [02:05.83]No flounces, no feathers [02:07.73] [02:08.26]No frills and furbelows [02:09.53] [02:10.99]All winds and all weathers [02:13.57]Ain't good for fancy clo'es [02:15.15] [02:16.11]These trappings, [02:17.82]These ta'ers [02:19.23]These we can just afford. [02:20.68] [02:21.82]What future? [02:23.25]What ma'ers? [02:24.63]We've got our bed and board. [02:26.76] [02:28.19]If you don't mind having to deal with Fagin [02:30.94]It's a fine life! [02:32.01]It's a fine life! [02:33.43]Though diseased rats threaten to bring the plague in [02:36.33]It's a fine life! [02:37.46]It's a fine life! [02:39.05]But the grass is green and dense [02:40.75] [02:41.62]On the right side of the 'fence'. [02:43.62] [02:44.34]And we take good care of it [02:46.26]That we get our share of it [02:47.40]And we don't mean pence. [02:49.34] [02:50.15]No! If you don't mind having to like or lump it... [02:53.23]It's a fine life [02:54.85]It's a fine life! [02:56.46]Tho' there's no tea-supping and eating crumpet [02:59.59]It's a fine life! [03:01.31]It's a fine life! [03:02.50] [03:05.52]Not for me, the happy home [03:08.82] [03:11.47]Happy husband, happy wife [03:14.00] [03:17.70]Tho' it sometimes touches me... [03:20.54]...For the likes of such as me... [03:22.89] [03:23.92]Mine's a fine... [03:25.23]Fine... life! [03:27.75]