I Went To a Marvellous Party

Verse 1

Quite for no reason

I'm here for the season

And high as a kite,

Living in error

With maud at cap ferrat

Which couldn't be right.

Everyone's here and frightfully gay,

Nobody cares what people say,

Though the riviera

Seems really much queerer

Than rome at it's height,

Yesterday night-

Refrain 1

I went to a marvelous party

With nounou and nada and nell,

It was in the fresh air

And we went as we were

And we stayed as we were

Which was hell.

Poor grace started singing at midnight

And didn't stop singing till four;

We knew the excitement was bound to begin

When laura got blind on dubonnet and gin

And scratched her veneer with a cartier pin,

I couldn't have liked it more.

Refrain 2

I went to a marvelous party,

I must say the fun was intense,

We all had to do

What the people we knew

Would be doing a hundred years hence.

Dear cecil arrived wearing armour,

Some shells and a black feather boa,

Poor millicent wore a surrealist comb

Made of bits of mosaic from st. peter's in rome,

But the weight was so great that she had to go home,

I couldn't have liked it more.

Verse 2

People's behaviour

Away from belgravia

Would make you aghast,

So much variety

Watching society

Scampering past,

If you have any mind at all

Gibbon's divine decline and fall

Seems pretty flimsy,

No more than a whimsy,

By way of contrast

On saturday last-

Refrain 3

I went to a marvelous party,

We didn't start dinner till ten

And young bobbie carr

Did a stunt at the bar

With a lot of extraordinary men;

Dear baba arrived with a turtle

Which shattered us all to the core,

The grand duke was dancing a foxtrot with me

When suddenly cyril screamed "fiddledidee"

And ripped off his trousers and jumped in the sea,

I couldn't have liked it more.

Refrain 4

I went to a marvelous party,

Elise made an entrance with may

You'd never have guessed

From her fisherman's vest

That her bust had been whittled away.

Poor lulu got fried on chianti

And talked about esprit de corps.

Maurice made a couple of passes at gus

And freddie, who hates any kind of a fuss,

Did half the big apple and twisted his truss,

I couldn't have liked it more.

Refrain 5

I went to a marvellous party.

We played the most wonderful game,

Maureen disappeared

And came back in a beard

And we all had to guess at her name!

We talked about growing old gracefully

And elsie who's seventy-four

Said, "a, it's a question of being sincere,

And b, if you're supple you've noting to fear."

Then she swung upside down from a glass chandelier,

I couldn't have liked it more.