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Verse 1
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In Pacific 1860,
there was concerted
number
in which the young
ladies of the household
implored the ADC
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s from Government House
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to outline their official duties.
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I would like to sing for you their reply,
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His Excellency Regrets.
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Now listen please,
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I'll tell you confidentially,
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How ADCs are trained in social grace.
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They must be brave,
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for daily they are called upon
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to save His Excellency's face.
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Any explanations of the duties
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of an A .D .C.
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prove the complications that are
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rife at Government House.
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Certain situations
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they could never let a lady see.
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There are strange vibrations
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in the life at Government House.
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Truth is often sac rificed
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for reasons of diplomacy.
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That, of course, you understand
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But all the same it must be grand to be
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So suave, so calm, so dignified
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If you knew what all that signified
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They who break the Ninth
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Commandment every day
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Would hang their heads in
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shame and say
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Forgive, we have to live
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Of ficially on feet of clay
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Every minute we're made to sin
It is really very depraved
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But to hell with the lies we tell
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His Excellency's honour
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must be saved
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His Excellency regrets
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That owing to an attack of gout
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He really dare not venture out
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On Saturday to dine
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His Excellency regrets
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That owing to doctor's orders
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He cannot attend the mission tea
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And also must decline
Your kind invitation,
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for Wednesday week,
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A slight operation,
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and poor circulation,
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Combined with a weedy physique,
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Has made him unable to speak.
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All this in addition to what,
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The doctors describe as a clot,
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Which may disappear by the end of the year,
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But may very possibly not,
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His Ex cellency regrets,
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That owing to his exalted state,
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He can no more associate with
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amiable brunettes,
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Walk up, walk up,
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we're willing to take
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Take your bets,
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that that's one of the principal things
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His Excellency regrets.
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So now you know about the
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diplomatic whore,
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How it can so corrupt
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the soul of youth.
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Imagine if someday they gave
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the waiting world
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A whiff of plain unvarnished truth.
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His Excellency regrets
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that failing a better alibi,
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He must admit he'd rather die
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than open your bazaar.
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His Ex cellency regrets that lack
ing enough official scope
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He can't disband the Band of Hope
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no matter where they are
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He frankly despises the people he rules
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His gorge also rises when giving the prizes
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At co -educational schools
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to rows of illiterate fools
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And if you should write in the book,
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he'll give you a murderous look
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For he ru ins his day to be taken away
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from his rod and his line and his hook
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His excellency regrets,
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he hasn't enough to run the house
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or pay the staff
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or feed a mouse upon the pay he gets.
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Hey ho, hey ho,
he's up to his ears in debts,
but that's one of the least of
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the things
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his excellency regrets.
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