As recorded at Las Vegas in June, 1955
Spoken:
Now I should like to sing you a new song that I wrote only just last year when I was having a holiday on the Island of Capri. Each evening I used to sit on the piazza and watch these hordes of middle-aged ladies ariving by every boat, obviously, all set to have
Themselves a ball, So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle, that I wrote this song about a respectable British matron, who discovered in the nick of time that life was for living
I'll sing you a song, it's not very long
It's moral may disconcert you
Of a mother and wife who for most of her life
Was famed for domestic virtue
She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son
And a much duller husband who, at sixty-one
Elected to retire... ...and later on expire
Sing Halleluhua, heigh-nonny-no
Heigh-nonny-no, heigh-nonny-no
He joined the feathered choir
Having laid him to rest by special request
In the family mausoleum
As his widow repaired to the home they had shared
Her heart sang a gay TeDeum
And then in the middle of the funeral wake
While adding some liquor to the Tipsy Cake
She briskly cried "That's done
My life's at last begun"
Sing Halleluhah, heigh-nonny-no
Heigh-nonny-no, heigh-nonny-no
"It's time I had some fun
Today, though hardly a jolly day
At least has set me free
We'll all have a lovely holiday
On the Island of Capri."
Spoken:
Now I should like to sing you a new song that I wrote only just last year when I was having a holiday on the Island of Capri. Each evening I used to sit on the piazza and watch these hordes of middle-aged ladies ariving by every boat, obviously, all set to have
Themselves a ball, So startled was I by this rather macabre spectacle, that I wrote this song about a respectable British matron, who discovered in the nick of time that life was for living
I'll sing you a song, it's not very long
It's moral may disconcert you
Of a mother and wife who for most of her life
Was famed for domestic virtue
She had two strapping daughters and a rather dull son
And a much duller husband who, at sixty-one
Elected to retire... ...and later on expire
Sing Halleluhua, heigh-nonny-no
Heigh-nonny-no, heigh-nonny-no
He joined the feathered choir
Having laid him to rest by special request
In the family mausoleum
As his widow repaired to the home they had shared
Her heart sang a gay TeDeum
And then in the middle of the funeral wake
While adding some liquor to the Tipsy Cake
She briskly cried "That's done
My life's at last begun"
Sing Halleluhah, heigh-nonny-no
Heigh-nonny-no, heigh-nonny-no
"It's time I had some fun
Today, though hardly a jolly day
At least has set me free
We'll all have a lovely holiday
On the Island of Capri."
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