Logic 1919 'The Velvet Lady'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 24 Mar 2006
2006

Now, logic is really a science exact,
we all must admit there's no doubt of it;
mathematic'ly stated, a fact is a fact,
that's all!
There is no getting out of it!
And yet when you get to considering things,
in divers conditions and places,
you're likely to find,
if you have any mind,
that circumstances alter cases!

Now logically, you could tell me
that things being cut at each end,
would grow shorter and shorter
the longer they cut,
(Yes!) then how about trenches, my friend?
Or take a cigar you have lighted,
unless it's too cheap or too strong.
Very often you'll find
you have smoked it too short,
because you have smoked it too long!

If you try to see a man fifty miles off,
the sight of your eyes it beguiles away;
and yet you can look at the Man in the Moon,
who's thousands and thousands of miles away!
They tell us the sun's bigger far than the earth,
why doesn't it then keep the rain off?
And now for a physical logical fact,
to blow the cobwebs of your brain off:

Now here's your right hand to begin with,
and here's your left hand right in sight;
if you lose your left hand,
your right hand is left,
'cos the only hand left is your right!
So you must be left with your right hand,
if you of your left are bereft;
so it's logic'lly right,
is you're left with your right,
you can write with your right,
'cos it's left!

Soft karaoke
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Logic 1919
from "The Velvet Lady"
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics By Henry Blossom
© MCMXIX by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 24 March 2006 at 23.21
in association with Doug Grierson
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