[Jessie:]
We've reached our destination, and I'm glad of it!
[Carbonnet:]
A really most unpleasant time we've had of it.
[Ruby:]
The weather show'd its windy, damp and dewy side.
[Maddox:]
At intervals, I contemplated suicide.
[Jessie:]
The gale increas'd with lustier and louder puffs.
[Carbonnet:]
And all the girls forgot to use their powder puffs.
[Violet:]
Our faces were as colourless as dimity.
[Maddox:]
We couldn't think of food with equanimity.
[Carbonnet:]
That excruciating crossing
With its pitching and its tossing
Is an ordeal that happily is over-O.
It's enough to make you floppy
If the Channel's chippy choppy
When from Calais you are voyaging to Dover-O.
[All:]
That excruciating crossing
With its pitching and its tossing
Is an ordeal that happily is over-O.
It's enough to make you floppy
If the Channel's chippy choppy
When from Calais you are voyaging to Dover-O.
[Daisy:]
I am so pleas'd to see you all!
The time has gone so fast
I really thought you'd miss the ball, but here you are at last.
[Sir George:]
Good gracious me! These people here?
It's really most unpleasant!
As Daisy's guests they've been, I fear, invited to be present.
[Madame Amelie:]
Well, Daisy dear, I've come, you see.
[Daisy:]
Madame, this is delightful!
A long, long time you'll stay with me.
[Sir George:]
The situation's frightful.
[Lady Barbara:]
Though I hate to make unnecessary fuss
If that woman's to associate with us
Then I must bring my visit to an end.
[Daisy:]
I won't allow you to insult my friend.
[Madame Amelie:]
I'm sorry that my visit has aroused her indignation,
But suppose we leave the matter to Sir George's arbitration?
[Sir George:]
I, oh really, well, you see
If the question's left to me
Rather fully into matters I must go.
And of course it's very clear
That we can't discuss them here;
There's a time and place for everything, you know.
[Daisy:]
Now promise me that quite at home you'll make yourselves.
You're longing to your rooms I know to take yourselves.
Exhausted with the journey here from France a bit,
But when you've chang'd your things, come down and dance a bit.
[Jessie:]
I'll talk again quite cheerfully and chattily
As soon as I have had some sal volatile.
At present I am feeling faint and flickery,
And hardly fit to frolic with Terpsichore!
[All:]
That excruciating crossing
With its pitching and its tossing
Is an ordeal that happily is over-O.
It's enough to make you floppy
If the Channel's chippy choppy
When from Calais you are voyaging to Dover-O.
That excruciating crossing
With its pitching and its tossing
Is an ordeal that happily is over-O.
It's enough to make you floppy
If the Channel's chippy choppy
When from Calais you are voyaging to Dover-O.