No. 14 - Song - "The Smartest Girl in Town" (soloist unspecified)

from "The Shop Girl"
Music by Ivan Caryll
Words by Adrian Ross
Sequenced by Colin Johnson
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By Ivan Caryll
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I'm a lady not unknown to fame,
Critics call me by my Christian name,
And you see my photograph on show
Just wherever you may care to go.
I've been taken in my dinner gown,
Looking modestly and shyly down,
Or kicking high with petticoats that fly-
The smartest girl in town.
Oh, there never was a tale of a romancer
That told of such a fairy as a dancer,
For a kingdom she enjoys
When she's told by all the boys
That she's ever, ever, ever such a duck.
And the millionaires devoutedly adore me,
And the peerage in a body kneels before me,
And the little dancing girl
May be married to an Earl,
For you never, never, never know your luck, luck, luck,
No, you never, never, never know your luck!

Ah, dear boys you won't be very glad
When I'm married to a noble lad,
I shall turn out most singularly prim,
And I reckon I'll look after him;
Oh, I'll be a very proper sort,
Quite propriety itself in short.
And all the peers shall vote me a success,
The grandest dame at Court.
Yes, I think that I shall find the method answer,
A Duchess will develop from a dancer,
All the House of Lords will own
That there never has been known
Such a dear, demure and dainty little duck.
And a dancing girl burlesque or operatic
May be mother of a race aristocratic,
Who will have their noble rights
To an ancestress in tights,
For you never, never, never know your luck, luck, luck,
For you never, never, never know your luck!

Karaoke version by Colin Johnson

No. 14 - Song - The Smartest Girl
Soft karaoke
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