No. 5 - Song - Charlie

from "The Shop Girl"
Music by Lionel Monckton
Words by Adrian Ross
Sequenced by Colin Johnson
All Rights Reserved

By Lionel Monckton
Generated by NoteWorthy Composer

[Charlie:] If without a single mark of your identity,
On a hospitable door-step you are thrown,
And your pedigree's a practical nonentity,
And your ancestors, if any, are not known,
Since your family is wholly problematical,
You may fancy you were stolen when at nurse,
And be sure your birth was quite aristocratical,
Though it probably was rather the reverse!
Oh, it's better for you rather
Not to try and find your father,
Than to find him picking oakum in a cell;
So refrain from lamentations
At your lack of all relations,
And you'll learn to do without them very well,
Very well,
Yes, you'll really do without them very well.
[Foundlings:] And we'll learn to do without them very well,
Very well,
Yes, we'll really do without them very well.

[Charlie:] You may think it a calamity unmerited,
That you haven't any family estate,
Though the property that you would have inherited,
Could scarcely be particularly great!
But your destination needn't leave you sorrowing,
For if ever you have money safe and sure,
You have not a poor relation to be borrowing,
For your haven't a relation to be poor.
Not a niece or nephew needy,
Not a sister feeling seedy,
Or a cousin with some fancy work to sell;
And if you should need a shilling,
You've an uncle kind and willing,
And he'll do the bus'ness for you very well,
Very well,
Yes, he'll lend you on your ticker very well.
[Foundlings:] And he'll do the bus'ness for us very well,
Very well,
Yes, he'll lend us on our tickers very well.

[Charlie:] If a daughter is revolting or refractory,
Then her parents may object or even strike;
You will find it very much more satisfactory
To be left to do exactly as you like!
You can have a little harmless bit of fun or two,
And you needn't ask mamma before you wed,
And you come in with a latch-key, say at one or two,
And there's nobody to pack you off to bed.
If a cigarette should charm you,
There is no one to alarm you,
Or to tell you she is poisoned by the smell;
And in going out on Sunday,
You can laugh at Mrs. Grundy,
And I think you've been and done it rather well,
Rather well,
And I think you've gone and done it rather well.
[Foundlings:] And we think we've been and done it rather well,
Rather well!
And we think we've gone and done it rather well!

Karaoke version by Colin Johnson

No. 5 - Song - Charlie
Soft karaoke
Words
Charlie
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