Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans-Noel Coward and Orchestra/Betty Carless

[ti:Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra/Betty Carless] [al:Those Were The Days Vol 5] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans - Noel Coward and Orchestra/Betty Carless [00:00.02]Written by：Noel Coward [00:00.04] [00:07.93]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [00:10.62] [00:11.24]When our victory is ultimately won [00:15.06]It was just those nasty nazis [00:16.70] [00:17.25]Who persuaded them to fight [00:18.34] [00:18.92]And their beethoven and bach are [00:20.49]Really far worse than their bite [00:22.61]Let's be meek to them [00:24.59]And turn the other cheek to them [00:26.25]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun [00:28.59] [00:29.92]Let's give them full air parity [00:31.70]And treat the rats with charity [00:33.51]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [00:36.11] [00:37.94]We must be kind [00:38.81] [00:39.59]And with an open mind [00:41.67]We must endeavour to find a way [00:44.08] [00:44.91]To let the germans know that when the war is over [00:48.68]They are not the ones who'll have to pay [00:51.39] [00:52.81]We must be sweet and tactful and discreet [00:56.11] [00:56.76]And when they've suffered defeat [00:58.04]We mustn't let them feel upset or ever get [01:00.88]The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them [01:04.05]Our future policy must be to reinstate them [01:07.44]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [01:10.05] [01:10.89]When we've definately got them on the run [01:13.73] [01:14.44]Let us treat them very kindly [01:16.11] [01:16.65]As we would a valued friend [01:17.98] [01:18.51]We might send them out some bishops [01:20.32]As a form of lease and lend [01:21.76] [01:22.38]Let's be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them [01:25.98]That sterilization simply isn't done [01:28.01] [01:29.69]Let's help the dirty swine again [01:31.58]To occupy the rhine again [01:33.57]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [01:36.20] [01:37.91]We must be just [01:38.84] [01:39.46]And win their love and trust [01:40.86] [01:41.67]And in additon we must be wise [01:43.66] [01:44.83]And ask the conquered lands to [01:46.49]Join our hands to aid them [01:48.70]That would be a wonderful surprise [01:51.74] [01:52.91]For many years [01:53.84] [01:54.76]They've been in floods of tears [01:56.77]Because the poor little dears [01:58.24]Have been so wronged and only longed [02:00.04]To cheat the world deplete the world and beat [02:02.47]The world to blazes [02:03.43] [02:04.22]This is the moment [02:05.37]When we ought to sing their praises [02:07.57]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [02:10.00] [02:11.11]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun [02:13.92] [02:14.69]Though they've been a little naughty [02:16.67]To the czechs and poles and dutch [02:18.28] [02:18.80]I don't suppose those countries [02:20.54]Really minded very much [02:21.94] [02:22.63]Let's be free with them [02:24.43]And share the bbc with them [02:26.35]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun [02:29.30] [02:30.02]Let's soften their defeat again [02:31.57]And build their bloody fleet again [02:33.75]But don't let's be beastly to the hun [02:37.50]Don't let's be beastly to the germans [02:40.28] [02:40.92]When the age of peace and plenty has begun [02:44.81]We must send them steel and oil [02:46.37]And coal and everything they need [02:47.99] [02:48.67]For their peaceable intentions [02:50.50]Can be always guaranteed [02:51.72] [02:52.60]Let's employ with them a sort of strength [02:55.30]Through joy with them [02:56.44]They're better than us at honest manly fun [02:58.70] [03:00.10]Let's let them feel they're swell again [03:01.96]And bomb us all to hell again [03:04.04]But don't let's be beastly to the hun