The Mystery of Edwin Drood movie - Off To The Races lyrics
rate me<br>
Chairman:<br>
Quick conclusions often lead the best of us astray.<br>
The wisest move in life is just to wait. <br>
Otherwise, your galloping emotions run away<br>
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Chairman, Durdles, Deputy:<br>
Like horses at the gate.<br>
Off to the races, off to the races<br>
Off to the races we go!<br>
But where the chase is<br>
and what the pace is<br>
We seldom seem to know. <br>
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Durdles:<br>
Men with broken hearts have vowed to nevermore pursue<br>
A member of the soft and savoured face<br>
Firmly anchored to the ground, they suddenly will view<br>
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Durdles & Deputy:<br>
A fair and favored face<br>
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Durdles, Deputy, & Chairman:<br>
Then: off to the races, off to the races<br>
Where flirting faces call!<br>
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Deputy &Chairman:<br>
His saving grace is strong drink replaces<br>
The need for love at all.<br>
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All:<br>
Don't fall back on your assumptions - <br>
Hasty presumptions might do you in!<br>
Mind the track! Like a nag running blind.<br>
Try lagging behind:<br>
You'll find you'll win.<br>
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Chairman:<br>
Bless our Queen Victoria, she's had nine kids to date<br>
You wonder how Prince Albert got enthused!<br>
Probably by her decree he had to procreate:<br>
Said she, "Make me amused!"<br>
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All:<br>
Off to the races, the royal races<br>
The same as poor folk do!<br>
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Deputy:<br>
When she embraces her royal graces<br>
The same she wants as you<br>
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All:<br>
And the race is won by the tardy Not the fool-hardy fools that we be!<br>
Don't unlace your madcap abandon,<br>
Do and you'll land undone, <br>
Not me!<br>
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So we call upon you all to hold your <br>
horse's reins<br>
Before you solve this dickens of a crime!<br>
Sometimes having patience is as good as having brains,<br>
So take your bloody time!<br>
Pour out the spirits, the end is near, it's only a length or so:<br>
Don't begin to beat your tar off for the<br>
finish isn't far off.<br>
To the races!<br>
Off to the race we go...Tally-ho! <br>
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