[ti:Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans]
[ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra]
[al:Noel Coward, Vol. 1]
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[00:00.00]Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans - Noel Coward
[00:07.99]Don't let's be beastly to the germans
[00:11.40]When our victory is ultimately won
[00:15.07]It was just those nasty nazis
[00:17.12]Who persuaded them to fight
[00:18.91]And their beethoven and bach are
[00:20.44]Really far worse than their bite
[00:22.55]Let's be meek to them
[00:24.31]And turn the other cheek to them
[00:26.31]And try to bring out their latent sense of fun
[00:29.89]Let's give them full air parity
[00:31.67]And treat the rats with charity
[00:33.43]But don't let's be beastly to the hun
[00:37.78]We must be kind
[00:39.65]And with an open mind
[00:41.49]We must endeavour to find a way
[00:44.80]To let the germans know that when the war is over
[00:48.71]They are not the ones who'll have to pay
[00:52.80]We must be sweet and tactful and discreet
[00:56.50]And when they've suffered defeat
[00:57.79]We mustn't let them feel upset or ever get
[01:00.81]The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them
[01:04.06]Our future policy must be to reinstate them
[01:07.21]Don't let's be beastly to the germans
[01:10.70]When we've definately got them on the run
[01:14.35]Let us treat them very kindly
[01:16.41]As we would a valued friend
[01:18.17]We might send them out some bishops
[01:20.03]As a form of lease and lend
[01:22.10]Let's be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them
[01:25.77]That sterilization simply isn't done
[01:29.39]Let's help the dirty swine again
[01:31.28]To occupy the rhine again
[01:33.17]But don't let's be beastly to the hun
[01:37.42]We must be just
[01:39.26]And win their love and trust
[01:41.21]And in additon we must be wise
[01:44.32]And ask the conquered lands to
[01:45.85]Join our hands to aid them
[01:48.28]That would be a wonderful surprise
[01:52.46]For many years
[01:54.26]They've been in floods of tears
[01:56.17]Because the poor little dears
[01:57.62]Have been so wronged and only longed
[01:59.48]To cheat the world deplete the world and beat
[02:01.80]The world to blazes
[02:03.64]This is the moment
[02:04.70]When we ought to sing their praises
[02:06.88]Don't let's be beastly to the germans
[02:10.45]For you can't deprive a ganster of his gun
[02:14.42]Though they've been a little naughty
[02:16.19]To the czechs and poles and dutch
[02:18.14]But I don't suppose those countries
[02:19.88]Really minded very much
[02:21.88]Let's be free with them
[02:23.65]And share the bbc with them
[02:25.60]We mustn't prevent them basking in the sun
[02:29.20]Let's soften their defeat again
[02:31.08]And build their bloody fleet again
[02:32.90]But don't let's be beastly to the hun
[02:36.68]Don't let's be beastly to the germans
[02:40.01]When the age of peace and plenty has begun
[02:43.88]We must send them steel and oil
[02:45.47]And coal and everything they need
[02:47.71]For their peaceable intentions
[02:49.23]Can be always guaranteed
[02:51.55]Let's employ with them a sort of strength
[02:54.66]Through joy with them
[02:55.37]They're better than us at honest manly fun
[02:59.14]Let's let them feel they're swell again
[03:01.09]And bomb us all to hell again
[03:03.04]But don't let's be beastly to the hun