Try To Learn To Love Noël Coward

As sung April 27, 1928

Ln kindergartens
In country or town
Our education begins
Like little Spartans
Were taught to crush down
The inclination to sin
When we change to gentle adolescence
Things get rather strained
Theres a strange, peculiar effervescence
No one has explained

First you learn to spell
A little bit
Then, if you excel
A little bit
Other things as well
A little bit
Come your way;
Though the process may be slow to you
Knowledge of the world will flow to you
Steadily you grow a little bit
Day by day;
Though you’re too gentle, sentimental, In fact, quite a dreary bore
Though you’re aesthetic, apathetic
To all men but Bernard Shaw
Use the velvet glove
A little bit
Emulate the dove
A little bit
Try to learn to love a little bit more