[03:40.00]You know quite for no reason
[03:40.00]I'm here for the season
[03:40.00]And high as a kite
[03:40.00]Living in error
[03:40.00]With Maud at Cap Ferret
[03:40.00]Which couldn't be right
[03:40.00]Everyone's here and frightfully gay
[03:40.00]Nobody cares what people say
[03:40.00]Though the Riviera
[03:40.00]Seems really much queerer
[03:40.00]Than Rome at its height
[03:40.00]On Wednesday night
[03:40.00]I went to a marvellous party
[03:40.00]With Noonoo and Nada and Nell
[03:40.00]It was in the fresh air
[03:40.00]And we went as we were
[03:40.00]And we stayed as we were
[03:40.00]Which was hell
[03:40.00]Poor Grace started singing at midnight
[03:40.00]And she didn't stop singing 'til four
[03:40.00]We knew the excitement was bound to begin
[03:40.00]When Laura got blind on Dubonnet and gin
[03:40.00]And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin
[03:40.00]I couldn't have liked it more
[03:40.00]I've been to a marvellous party
[03:40.00]We played a wonderful game：
[03:40.00]Maureen disappeared
[03:40.00]And came back in a beard
[03:40.00]And we all had to guess at her name
[03:40.00]Cecil arrived wearing armour
[03:40.00]Some shells and a black feather boa
[03:40.00]Poor Millicent wore a surrealist comb
[03:40.00]Made of bits of mosaic from St Peter's in Rome
[03:40.00]But the weight was so great that she had to go home
[03:40.00]And I couldn't have liked it more
[03:40.00]I've been to a marvellous party
[03:40.00]I must say the fun was intense
[03:40.00]We all had to do
[03:40.00]What the people we knew
[03:40.00]Might be doing a hundred years hence
[03:40.00]We talked about growing old gracefully
[03:40.00]And Elsie who's seventy four'
[03:40.00]Said 'A
[03:40.00]It's a question of being sincere
[03:40.00]And B
[03:40.00]If you're supple you've got nothing to fear'
[03:40.00]Then she swung upside down from a chandelier
[03:40.00]And I couldn't have liked it more
[03:40.00]It was the most fabulous excitement
[03:40.00]I've never seen such a carry on
[03:40.00]Obviously it couldn't happen
[03:40.00]Anywhere else but on the Riviera
[03:40.00]It was most peculiar
[03:40.00]You know people's behaviour
[03:40.00]Away from Belgravia
[03:40.00]Would make you aghast
[03:40.00]So much variety
[03:40.00]Watching society
[03:40.00]Scampering past
[03:40.00]You know if you have any mind at all
[03:40.00]Gibbon's divine 'Decline And Fall'
[03:40.00]Well it sounds pretty flimsy No more than a whimsy
[03:40.00]By way of contrast
[03:40.00]On Wednesday last
[03:40.00]I went to a marvellous party
[03:40.00]We didn't sit down 'til ten
[03:40.00]You know young Bobby Carr
[03:40.00]Did a stunt at the bar
[03:40.00]With a lot of extraordinary men
[03:40.00]And then Freda arrived with a turtle
[03:40.00]Which shattered us all to the core
[03:40.00]And then the duchess passed out at a quarter to three
[03:40.00]And suddenly Cyril cried 'fiddle de dee '
[03:40.00]Then he ripped off his trousers
[03:40.00]And jumped in the sea
[03:40.00]And I couldn't have liked it more
[03:40.00]I've been to a marvellous party
[03:40.00]Elyse made an entrance with May
[03:40.00]You'd never have guessed
[03:40.00]From her fisherman's vest
[03:40.00]That her bust had been whittled away
[03:40.00]Poor Lulu got fried on Chianti
[03:40.00]And talked about esprit de corps
[03:40.00]Louise made a couple of passes at Gus
[03:40.00]And Freddie who hates any kind of a fuss
[03:40.00]Did half the Big Apple and twisted his truss ha ha
[03:40.00]I couldn't have liked it more