No. 4 - Trio - Polly, Weller and Sam - "Gratitude."

Lyrics by Grant Stewart

[Polly:] Please tell me what is gratitude
and where it can be found.
[Sam:] Experience makes me conclude
it ain't above the ground.
[Weller:] You're wrong my boy,
a clever man can find it if he looks.
[Polly:] I'm sure I wish you'd tell me where.
[Weller:] Why, in the story books.
[Sam & Polly:] That's right, that's right.
[Polly:] It isn't on earth and it isn't in air.
[Sam:] If ain't found in bus'ness,
to that you can swear.
[Weller:] It's a thing that you'll none of you
meet with in trade.
It's never been born, and it's never been made.
[Sam:] It's a debt always owing
that never gets paid.
It can't live in sunshine and dies in the shade.
[Polly:] Then what is gratitude, what can it be?
[Weller:] It's a bloomin' conundrum,
take it from me.
[Polly:] Where, oh where on earth is gratitude?
[Sam:] No one's found it in this latitude;
[Weller:] Talking of gratitude's only a platitude.
[Polly:] Nobody knows where gratitude goes,
[Sam:] When gratitude some one owes.
[All:] Where, oh where on earth is gratitude?
No one's found it in this latitude;
Talking of gratitude's only a platitude.
Nobody knows where gratitude goes,
When gratitude some one owes.

[Sam:] You lend a friend a sovereign
and you find you've lost them both.
[Weller:] Refuse to lend, you've lost your friend;
to that I'll take my oath.
[Polly:] But help a maiden in distress;
she'll grateful be, I'm sure.
[Sam:] You'l find she'll take a second help;
then pass her plate for more.
[Polly & Weller:] That's right, that's right.
[Polly:] But gratitude surely is met with in some.
[Weller:] As a very keen notion of favors to come.
[Sam:] It's a Will-o'-the-Wisp that keeps
leading you on,
And just when you want it you find that it's gone.
[Polly:] It's something you read about,
talk about too.
You expect it in others and they do in you.
[Sam:] It hasn't got body, head, arms, feet or legs.
[Weller:] It's the extract of nothing
boiled down to the dregs.

[Polly:] Where, oh where on earth is gratitude?
[Sam:] No one's found it in this latitude;
[Weller:] Talking of gratitude's only a platitude.
[Polly:] Nobody knows where gratitude goes,
[Sam:] When gratitude some one owes.
[All:] Where, oh where on earth is gratitude?
No one's found it in this latitude;
Talking of gratitude's only a platitude.
Nobody knows where gratitude goes,
When gratitude some one owes.