Hey Polly! I have saved you some work! A kind person lent me a tape of the song and I've now transcribed it, as follows, It dates from the early sixties and has all the flavour of a saucy seaside postcard - you know the kind I mean! SCHOOL IN CHELTENHAM As sung by TSAI CHIN I went to school in Cheltenham At a fashionable Ladies' College Where I learnt what's what And acquired a lot of Exceedingly practical knowledge Our reading; writing, 'rithmetic Was positively mediocre But we got pretty slick At the three card trick And we played a pretty hand of poker We were rather weak at our Latin and Greek But we worked with considerable fervour And we had to cram For our English exam On Lady Chatterley's Lover. I loved my school in Cheltenham With the chestnut trees so shady. And I now embrace All the charm and grace Of a typical English lady. I shared a room in Cheltenham With a daughter of the landed gentry Whose most refined Little one-tracked mind Was completely elementary Our marks in French and algebra Were a series of disasters But at forging cheques Or at S-E-X We were absolute past masters In the upper sixth form we were studying form And we put on the money with the porter And at night our Head Used to tuck us bed With an outsized whisky and water Let's give three cheers for Cheltenham Where the chestnut trees are shady Where I learnt of vice And all things nice Like a typical English lady
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