to outline their official duties.
I would like to sing for you their reply,
I'll tell you confidentially,
How ADCs are trained in social grace.
for daily they are called upon
to save His Excellency's face.
Any explanations of the duties
prove the complications that are
rife at Government House.
they could never let a lady see.
There are strange vibrations
in the life at Government House.
Truth is often sac rificed
for reasons of diplomacy.
That, of course, you understand
But all the same it must be grand to be
So suave, so calm, so dignified
If you knew what all that signified
Would hang their heads in
Of ficially on feet of clay
Every minute we're made to sin
It is really very depraved
But to hell with the lies we tell
That owing to an attack of gout
He really dare not venture out
That owing to doctor's orders
He cannot attend the mission tea
Combined with a weedy physique,
Has made him unable to speak.
All this in addition to what,
The doctors describe as a clot,
Which may disappear by the end of the year,
But may very possibly not,
That owing to his exalted state,
He can no more associate with
that that's one of the principal things
So now you know about the
Imagine if someday they gave
A whiff of plain unvarnished truth.
that failing a better alibi,
He must admit he'd rather die
His Ex cellency regrets that lack
ing enough official scope
He can't disband the Band of Hope
He frankly despises the people he rules
His gorge also rises when giving the prizes
At co -educational schools
to rows of illiterate fools
And if you should write in the book,
he'll give you a murderous look
For he ru ins his day to be taken away
from his rod and his line and his hook
he hasn't enough to run the house
or feed a mouse upon the pay he gets.
he's up to his ears in debts,
but that's one of the least of
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