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Thread #51575   Message #640011
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Feb-02 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Two Lovely Black Eyes (Charles Coborn)
Subject: Lyr Add: TWO LOVELY BLACK EYES (Charles Coborn)
Copied from the English Music Hall site:

TWO LOVELY BLACK EYES
NO MORE POLITICS FOR ME
(Charles Coborn)

1. Strolling so happy down Bethnal Green
This gay youth you might have seen,
Tompkins and I, with his girl between,
Oh what a surprise!
I praised the Conservatives frank and free,
Tompkins got angry so speedilee,
All in a moment he handed to me,
Two lovely black eyes.

CHORUS: Two lovely black eyes,
Oh what a surprise!
Only for telling a man he was wrong,
Two lovely black eyes!

2. Next time I argued I thought it best,
To give the Conservative side a rest.
The merits of Gladstone I freely pressed,
When oh, what a surprise!
The chap I had met was a Tory true,
Nothing the Liberals right could do,
This was my share of that argument too,
Two lovely black eyes!

3. The moral you've caught I can hardly doubt,
Never on politics rave and shout,
Leave it to others to fight it out,
If you would be wise.
Better, far better, it is to let,
Lib'rals and Tories alone, you bet,
Unless you're willing and anxious to get,
Two lovely black eyes!


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