WAITING FOR THE FILM TO COME. Sydney Carter.

From the 1962 LP 'Putting Out The Dustbin' (Transatlantic TRA 106) where it says:- 'None of the songs on this record have ever been in revue (except Waiting for the Film to Come, and that only in America)'.............'Sydney is presently occupied part-time with the National Book League, trying to think up ways of making people read more books.

Good literature, I think a lot of it,
Look at my bookshelf, see how much I've got of it,
But when it comes to reading I can only take a spot of it,
I'm waiting for the film to come.

Doctor Zhivago, everybody's heard of it,
I bought that and read about a third of it,
I must admit I didn't get a word of it,
I'm waiting for the film to come.

Got Lolita, well you had to do it,
Started well but couldn't stagger through it,
A little bit of sugar on an awful lot of suet,
I'm waiting for the film to come. ,

Lawrence Durell, or do you say Dur-elle,
Wrote four novels and wrote them very well,
But which is which I'm damned if I can tell,,
I'm waiting for the film to come. ,

Faber & Faber have a lot to crow about ,
In T.S. Elliot whose poetry you'll know about,
That'll be a cast to make a movie show about,
I'm waiting for the film to come. ,

Want to be a hipster then you'd better have a whack,
At reading a book by a cat named Kerouac,
I tried hard but, honestly, I'm sorry Jack,
I'm waiting for the film to come. ,

Lady Chatterley, what a pretty love affair,
Here's a forget-me-not, let me put it in your hair,
Couldn't find a single word I didn't know already there,
I'm waiting for the film to come.

I'm waiting for the film to come.