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/>Lyrics to Mad Dogs & Englishmen :
In
tropical climes
There are certain times
Of day
When all the citizens
retire
To take their clothes off and perspire.
It's one of those
rules
That the greatest fools
Obey,
Because the sun is far too
sultry
And one must avoid its ultry
Violet ray.
The natives
grieve
When the white men leave
Their huts.
Because they're
obviously,
Definitely
Nuts.
Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Go out in
the midday sun.
The Japanese don't care to,
The Chinese wouldn't dare
to,
Hindus and Argentines
Sleep firmly from twelve to one,
But
Englishmen
Detest a
Siesta.
In the Philippines
They have lovely
screens
To protect you from the glare.
In the Malay states
There are
hats like plates
Which the Britishers won't wear.
At twelve noon
The
natives swoon,
And no further work is done,
But mad dogs and
Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun!
Such a surprise
For the
eastern eyes
To see,
That though the English are effete,
They're quite
impervious to heat.
When the white man rides
Every native hides
In
glee.
Because the simple creatures hope he
Will impale his solar
topee
On a tree.
It seems such a shame
When the English
claim
The Earth,
That they give rise
To such hilarity
And
mirth.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo,
hoo,
He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he,
Hm, hm, hm, hm, hm, hm.
Mad
dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The toughest Burmese
bandit
Can never understand it.
In Rangoon
The heat of noon
Is just
what the natives shun,
They put their Scotch
Or Rye down
And lie
down.
In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and
beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more
creased.
In Bangkok
At twleve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and
run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
Mad dogs
and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
The smallest Malay
rabbit
Deplores this foolish habit.
In Hong Kong
They strike a
gong
And fire off a noonday gun
To reprimand
Each inmate
Who's in
late.
In the Mangrove swamps
Where the python romps
There is peace from
twelve to two,
Even caribous
Lie around and snooze,
For there's nothing
else to do.
In Bengal,
To move at all
Is seldom if ever done.
But
mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in
the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday
Out in the midday sun
| Noël Coward | |
|---|---|
 Coward in 1972 | |
| Born | Noël Peirce Coward 16 December 1899 Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, England |
| Died | 26 March 1973 (aged 73) Blue Harbour, Port Maria, Jamaica |
| Occupation | Actor, playwright, director, composer, singer |
| Years active | 1911–1973 |
In 1955, Coward's cabaret act at Las Vegas, recorded live for the gramophone,
and released as Noël Coward at Las Vegas [74] was so successful
that CBS engaged him to write and direct a
series of three 90-minute television specials for the 1955-1956 season. The
first of these, Together With Music, paired Coward with Mary Martin, featuring him in
many of the numbers from his Las Vegas act.[75] It was followed by productions of Blithe Spirit in which he starred with
Claudette
Colbert, Lauren
Bacall and Mildred
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