So This Is Venice! 1923

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 2 Jan 2009
2008

His name was Percy Brown
A chap from London Town,
Immensely wealthy
but just a bit unhealthy;
he heard his friends suggest
a sunny clime was best,
he went by motor
and one day said: "I'm blest!"

So this, so this is Venice!
'Pon my word, by jove,
it's Venice!
There's water on the Highways
and there's water on the byways
thru' my monocle,
it's so comical,
all these ferries!
Oh I thinkio
strike me pinkio
it's the berries.
So this is Venice!
I wonder
where a man can park his car?

So this, so this is Venice!
'Pon my word, by jove,
it's Venice!
There's water on the Highways
and there's water on the byways
thru' my monocle,
it's so comical,
all these ferries!
Oh I thinkio
strike me pinkio
it's the berries.
So this is Venice!
I wonder
where a man can park his car?

The way Venetians dress
to Percy seems a mess,
they wear galoshes
and rubber macintoshes
"The things all wet!" he writes
"I'd rather spend my nights
in silk pyjamas
instead of swimming tights!"

So this, so this is Venice!
'Pon my word, by jove,
it's Venice!
There's water on the Highways
and there's water on the byways
thru' my monocle,
it's so comical,
all these ferries!
Oh I thinkio
strike me pinkio
it's the berries.
So this is Venice!
I wonder
where a man can park his car?

So this, so this is Venice!
'Pon my word, by jove,
it's Venice!
There's water on the Highways
and there's water on the byways
thru' my monocle,
it's so comical,
all these ferries!
Oh I thinkio
strike me pinkio
it's the berries.
So this is Venice!
I wonder
where a man can park his car?

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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So This Is Venice! 1923
adapted by Harry Warren
arr. by Ross Gorman
Lyrics by Clarke & Leslie
© MCMXXIII by Clarke & Leslie Songs Inc. - N.Y.C.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 2 January 2008 at 22.32
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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