To tell you all the truth

About my casually misspent youth

Would be far beyond anything I’d dare

But we’d troll up town to see

If we’d find bona company

Whilst keeping well below the searchlights glare

We’d all sip at our Bacardi

And converse in hushed Polari

As we casually leaned against the bar

And If some omi came to ask it

We’d have a vada of his basket

And wonder if he’d care to go that far

‘course that was back in the day

When all bachelors were gay

And the way we lived was really rather nice

And though our friends we might deplore ‘em

If they slipped in their decorum

I too was silly down the ‘Dilly once or twice

Now I had a friend called Trevor

Who had family that never

Would believe that he would step beyond the Pale

But though he came across as haughty

He could get a trifle naughty

If he let the demon alcohol prevail

And so one night I’m afraid

He went searching after trade

Down the cottage where he thought he’d have his pick

But what he saw as mincing Tommy

Turned out as charpering omi

And he was whisked right off his lallies to the nick

Now these days it seems absurd

That such a one should get the bird

For such an unassumimg little vice

And though I wouldn’t wish to stress it

I’m afraid I must confess it

I too was silly down the ‘Dilly once or twice

Verse              |C        G         |F        C          |F                    |     C                |

|Em    Am      |F        C          |D7                  |     G                |

Chorus           | Em   Am      |F        C          |Dm                            |     G                |

|Em    Am      | Em   Am      |F        G         |     C               |

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