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Family Fugue

Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

Littlechap sings:

I thought that it would rain today;
But it didn't!
I took my raincoat anyway;
But I needn't.
We may have local fog tonight
And thunder;
It may rain cats and dogs tonight,
Shouldn't wonder.

Evie sings:

I knew it wouldn't rain today
'Cause any fool can tell darn well
That when the sky is red at night
It means another sunny spell.
Why you took your raincoat
When you've got that damn great motor-car!
Knew it wouldn't rain today;
How stubborn some men are!

Daughter 2: Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he...ooh...

Daughter 1: Polly put the kettle on; we'll all have...

Littlechap: I see if the Government spends another 200 billion on our space programme, we could have a white mouse in orbit by the end of the year!

Evie: Nobody knows the troubles I've seen; and nobody cares!

Littlechap: I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered, but I'm never gonna get lumbered again.

Evie: And if anyone asks me how I like this typically English life, I am fed up to my typically English teeth.

Daughters: There's no place like home, there's no place like home.