No. 27 - Addendum Duet - Lally and Tippin - "Down Where the Vegetables Grow."

Lyrics by Adrian Ross and Leslie Mayne

[Lally:] We are only 'umble costers
and uneducated chaps,
But the things as we 'ave thought of
would surprise you all, perhaps,
[Tippin:] For we may be in the know at times
and then again we mayn't,
But we see a bit of what is what
and likewise what it 'aint!
[Both:] Yes, we're clever fellows down in Covent Garden,
And you'd never guess the things we come to know,
[Tippin:] Oh, I tell you straight and plain,
There's a lot of human brain
[Both:] Down where the vegetables grow!

[Lally:] Now and then we get a paper
and we read about the jaw,
When the silly 'Ouse of Commins
is debating of a law!
[Tippin:] But there's 'ardly any of 'em
as will say just what they mean;
If you merely shouted "Liar"
then there's what they call a scene!
[Both:] You should send the members down to Covent Garden,
We would teach 'em how to speak before they go,
[Tippin:] If you're fond of manly talk
you had better take a walk
[Both:] Down where the vegetables grow!

[Lally:] There 'as been a lot of talk
about some pretty little pets,
There are anxious for to suffer,
so they call them Suffragettes,
[Tippin:] And they scratch the Bobbies' faces,
and they flop about and shriek,
And they always go to prison
when bound over by the Beak!
[Both:] If we caught a Suffragette in Covent Garden,
Well, she wouldn't get no bloomin' votes, what ho!
[Tippin:] We would feel inclined to shy
A tomato in her eye,
[Both:] Down where the vegetables grow!