Noel Coward - I went to a marvelous party (check out lyrics below!) video free download


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Uploaded: 2011/03/17

... I had the most extraordinary experience...

something to do with sun...couldn't understand myself, really

You know, quite for no reason

I'm here for the season

And high as a kite—

Living in error

With Maud at Cap Ferrat

(Which couldn't be right)...

Everyone's here, and frightfully gay;

Nobody cares what people say,

Though the Riviera

Seems really much queerer

Than Rome at its height!

On Wednesday night

I went to a marvellous party

With Noonoo, and Nada, and Nell—

It was in the fresh air,

And we went as we were,

And we stayed as we were,

(Which was hell)

Poor Grace started singing at midnight,

And she didn't stop singing 'til four—

We knew the excitement was bound to begin

When Laura got blind on Dubonnet and gin

And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin!

I couldn't have liked it more!

I've been to a marvellous party

We played a wonderful game:

Maureen disappeared

And came back in a beard,

And we all had to guess at her name...

Cecil arrived wearing armour,

Some shells and a black feather boa—

Poor Millicent wore a surrealist comb

Made of bits of mosaic from

St. Peter's in Rome,

But the weight was so great

that she had to go home!

And I couldn't have liked it more!

I've been to a marvellous party

I must say the fun was intense;

We all had to do

What the people we knew

Might be doing a hundred years hence...

[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/O7rI ]

We talked about growing old gracefully,

And Elsie—who's seventy-four—

Said, "A) it's a

question of being sincere,

And B) If you're supple you've got

nothing to fear"—

Then she swung upside-down from a chandelier!

And I couldn't have liked it more!

It was the most fabulous excitement

I've never seen such a carry-on!

Obviously, it couldn't happen

Anywhere else but on the Riviera...

It was most peculiar—

You know, people's behaviour

Away from Belgravia

Would make you aghast!

So much variety,

Watching society

Scampering past...

You know, if you have any mind at all,

Gibbon's divine

"Decline And

Fall"—

Well, it sounds pretty flimsy

No more than a whimsy...

By way of contrast,

On Wednesday last

I went to a marvellous party

We didn't sit down 'til ten

You know, young Bobby Carr

Did a stunt at the bar

With a lot of extraordinary men!

And then Freda arrived with a turtle,

(Which shattered us all to the core)

And then the duchess passed out

at a quarter to three

And suddenly Cyril cried

"Fiddle-de-dee!",

Then he ripped off his trousers

And jumped in the sea!

And I couldn't have liked it more!

I've been to a marvellous party

Elyse made an entrance with May

you'd never have guessed

From her fisherman's vest

That her bust had been whittled away...

Poor Lulu got fried on Chianti

And talked about esprit de corps;

Louise made a couple of passes at Gus,

And Freddie—who hates any kind of a fuss—

Did half the Big Apple and

twisted his truss—ha ha!

I couldn't have liked it more!

Comments

8 years ago

Kristin Pedemonti

Brilliant wit!

8 years ago

armoredinnerjacket

I only rap at 10% of Noel's Kampitute, but I still sound like a raging poofta to my new countrymen in Wiscaaarsin. I would settle for 'reminiscent of a very slightly effete aura', which recently got a response of (at the bowling alley) "I know you are speaking English, but I don't know what you are saying". I am sure they have taken away 1.2% of my elocution, so a life of linguistic evangelism has been well lived. Another couple of years will have me taking about 'How-sess' (people live in), and the bikers at Charlie's in Richfield will greet me with "I say old fruit, how's it swingin' me old mucker ?"

8 years ago

Jeremiah Hay

The master of the English spoken word

8 years ago

Gary Edwards

English Language Lessons 

9 years ago

holcroft1969

Not my usual cup of tea, but I do love this....pure brilliance :)

9 years ago

Erik Provensen

One of my favourite songs from dear Noel, and loads of fun!.....Enjoy, I wish I could have joined that little get together in a world that will, sadly, never exist again.....Carry on Noel, where ever you are:+)}}}

9 years ago

Michael Lemmon

Check out this video on YouTube:

9 years ago

comprehensiveboy

You'd never have guessed from her fisherman's vest that her bust had been whittled away. 

9 years ago

Mike Evans

Incredible that he got away with this in the age it was recorded (1938 I think)

9 years ago

Yvette Melech

Off to the Monaco Grand Prix What fun 

10 years ago

Valkyrie Page

This is just an evening for silliness!Noel Coward - I went to a marvelous party (check out lyrics below!)

10 years ago

Mark Orenchuk

Noel Coward - I went to a marvelous party (check out lyrics below!)

10 years ago

Nicardo

FYI, these are NOT "transcribed lyrics." They are published lyrics, which appear in different sources which VARY depending on the date. Names and lines CHANGED and verses get mixed and matched. This "patter-and-piano song" was in the musical revue with sketches he wrote which originated in 1932 in London under the title Words and Music. Seven years later the show was retitled Set to Music where it ran in New York. This version and performance is from a 1957 Columbia record of his 1956 NYC trip.

10 years ago

imaginativelads

Thank you for posting! This is one Ive never heard and it brilliant. I feel like I was there, I hope you felt the same and drank the last drop of gin with me and swung from the chandelier.

10 years ago

completelyriveting

No. Could you?

10 years ago

completelyriveting

No, you're wrong. Nothing has changed. You are trolling and are now banned.

10 years ago

Marcio de Souza

Oh, my!!! That´s really Ultra-gay!

10 years ago

Andrew James

to some it would appear..to the pianist undoubtedly!

10 years ago

Christopher Brown

U mean the Duke was THAT gfrthcnfvfcvxbg CONFUSED-sounding? In that case, Wallis Simpson was a GODSEND (as coward once hinted, BTW).

10 years ago

Jon Willis

He was taking the piss out of the Duke of Windsor - it's a perfect impersonation.

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