Or Thereabout.

Seq - Dr. J.Pitt-Payne. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. June 2001.

[Phoebe] Paris is the best of cities,
ev'ry shop is tiptop!

You can buy such pretty pretties,
or a hat,
big as that!

And at kiosks on sale
are The Telegraph and Daily Mail.

As you walk along the Champs Elysées,
or the Avenue de l'Opera or thereabout,
[Chorus] Or thereabout,

[Phoebe] You can buy French papers too,
with pictures of the sort of girls,

I don't exactly care about.
[Chorus] Don't care about.

[Phoebe] What they say about them,
is in French of course,
that I cannot make out,

But I guess just what it means,
or thereabout!

If you pine for something smarter,
in the ways of Cafés,

you can go about Montmartre,
there's a heap,
Pretty steep!

You can study Paris life,
but you'd better go without your wife.

You can go round the Café d'Abbaye, the Chat Noir,
or the Café du Rat Mort, or thereabout,
[Chorus] or thereabout.

[Phoebe] All the English,
who are so respectable at home,

are pretty sure to be somewhere about.
[Chorus] Somewhere about.

[Phoebe] You should see them,
roll about with laughter,
as they clap their hands and shout.

When the dancers
go like that - or thereabout!

Though I haven't been here longtemps,
as the gay French would say,

I have been to Café Chantants,
as one calls Music Halls!

I can give the latest news,
of the pieces that they call Revues!

When you go inside the Folies Bergères,
or Ambassadeurs, or Alcazar or thereabout,
[Chorus] or thereabout!

[Phoebe] You will see performances,
that set your hair on end,

supposing you have any hair about.
[Chorus] Some hair about!

[Phoebe] Girls come on in dresses,
that are beautifully made,
without a doubt,

but they're cut low in the neck,
or thereabout!

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Quaker26 Or Thereabout! 1910 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 31 May 2001

Quaker26 Or Thereabout! 1911 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 31 May 2001
Quaker26 Or Thereabout! 1911
Music by Hugo Felix
Lyrics by Adrian Ross
Copyright 1911 by Chappell and Co Ltd.
Sequenced by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 31 May 2001
in association with Doug Grierson
Karaoke by Bunty Pritchard Jones