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Thread #137261   Message #3149526
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-May-11 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs sung by Leslie Sarony
Subject: Lyr Add: GETTING UP NICE AND EARLY (Leslie Sarony)
You can hear this at YouTube. It's the first of 2 songs in one "video." Here is my transcription:

GETTING UP NICE AND EARLY
As sung by Leslie Sarony and Tommy Handley, with Jack Payne & the BBC Orchestra, Columbia 5555, 1930.

When you wake in bed,
Shift your lazy head.
Open up the window; look below you.
Do not spend the day
Sleeping hours away.
Nature has a lot of things to show you.
If you want to see the sun a-shining as it stares,
Get up nice and early in the morning.
If you want to see the flowers waking from their lairs,
Get up nice and early in the morning.
There's no need for you
Ever to be blue.
My advice is simple; you know what to do.
If you want to see your sweetie
Looking at her [pause*] worst,
Get up nice and early in the morning.

That's the idea. Get up nice and early in the morning. You know the old saying: early to bed, early to rise, uh, red sky at night, er, um, uh, keeps the doctor away. Anyhow, it's a well known fact, the longer you lay [sic] in bed, the shorter the bed seems to be. I remember once I got up so late in the morning, that when I was going downstairs to breakfast, I met meself coming up to bed again, and that's a fatal thing to do. Remember, if you want to keep that schoolgirl complexion, get up nice and early in the morning. And if you suffer from insomnia, go to bed and sleep it off. Yours truly, Tommy Handley.

[* The pause before "worst" hints that we might be expecting something risqué, but I can't think what it might be. Any ideas?]