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WAIFS AND STRAYS
In Yucatan, in Yucatan,
Land of eternal lotus chewing,
In Yucatan, in Yucatan,
Where sunny skies are blue as bluing,
In Yucatan, in Yucatan,
Oh, land of honeyed “Nothing Doing,”
Land of lyric, love, and leisure,
Place of poetry and pleasure,
Fairy-land of “Nothing Doing”—
Yucatan—in Yucatan.
Land of eternal lotus chewing,
In Yucatan, in Yucatan,
Where sunny skies are blue as bluing,
In Yucatan, in Yucatan,
Oh, land of honeyed “Nothing Doing,”
Land of lyric, love, and leisure,
Place of poetry and pleasure,
Fairy-land of “Nothing Doing”—
Yucatan—in Yucatan.
The following group of five songs was probably written soon after the collaborators had received a managerial lecture on the practical requirements of the theatre. They breathe the spirit of stagy sophistication as to “what they want,” and “how to get it over.”
LET US SING
There is nothing new, my lady, in the lexicon of love;
It is all as old as time.
They were vowing by the moon and to the twinkling stars above,
When they handed Eve the lime.
There is nothing new to tell you, there is nothing to sing,
There is nothing new to say;
So you’ll have to be contented with the ordinary thing,
In the ordinary way.
It is all as old as time.
They were vowing by the moon and to the twinkling stars above,
When they handed Eve the lime.
There is nothing new to tell you, there is nothing to sing,
There is nothing new to say;
So you’ll have to be contented with the ordinary thing,
In the ordinary way.
Let us sing in the manner traditional,
For we must have a lovers’ duet,
With a silly refrain repetitional
In a chorus you cannot forget.
They’ll applaud from Topeka to Gloversville,
For we must have a lovers’ duet,
With a silly refrain repetitional
In a chorus you cannot forget.
They’ll applaud from Topeka to Gloversville,
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