Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong 1927 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6Nov2013
2013

They say the French are naughty
they say the French at bad,
they all declare that over there
the French are going mad.
They have a reputation
of being very gay
I've just got back from Paris
and I just want to say.

When they go parlayVoo and ParleyVee
Zis for you and zat for me
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
When they go Oolalala lalala
on ze Boule Boulevah
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
They shake a ze hand
they shake a ze feet
they roll ze eyes
and kiss each other in the street.
And even tho'
the Irish and the Dutch
say it don't amount to much
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

All our fashions
come from gay Paree
and if they come above the knee
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
And if they give the world a new design
to prove a lady has a spine
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
They shorten them here
they shorten them there
and if her name is Teddy
they make teddy bear
if they prefer to see their women dress
with more or less of less and less
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

McCloskey was a sailor
he sailed the ocean blue,
he had a gal in Zanzibar
and one in Timbuctoo;
one day McCloskey told me:
"I'm off for gay Paree,
I've been a sport all over
but take a tip from me...."

If they go to a ball
out there you'll find
they always leave their wives behind
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
If their wives look after the home as well
while they look after some Mam'selle
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Says wifie: "It hurts. He's out
with the skirts, while I stay at home
mending his socks and shirts."
If in France they've a wife
the whole week long
and another for Sunday:
"Ouitray Bong."
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong!

If some whiskers on their dials appeared,
and they like to wear a nanny goat beard
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
at their pointed whiskers you mustn't chaff
it tickles the girls and makes them laugh
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
and over in France
they're full of romance
they say the p'licemen
all wear embroidery
on their pants
all the best married men
in France they say
all blot their copy books each day,
fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

Soft karaoke
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lyric
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Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong 1927 JPitt-Payne
Music by Fred Fisher
Lyrics by Billy Rose & Willie Raskin
© MCMXXVII by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 6 November 2013 at 16.07
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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