Garden Party Lyrics by Marillion

Garden Party Lyrics

    (derek dick, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley, brian jelliman, diz minnitt)

    Garden party held today
    Invites call the debs to play
    Social climbers polish ladders
    Wayward sons again have fathers
    "hello, dad!", "hello, dad!"

    Edgy eggs and queuing cumbers
    Rudely wakened from their slumbers
    Time has come again for slaughter
    On the lawns by still "cam" waters
    It's a slaughter, it's a slaughter

    Champagne corks are firing at the sun again
    Swooping swallows chased by violins again
    Straafed by strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again
    Oh god not again!

    Aperitifs consumed en masse display
    Their owners on the grass
    Couples loiter in the cloisters
    Social leeches quoting chaucer
    Doctor's son a parson's daughter
    Where why not and should they oughta

    Please don't lie upon the grass
    Unless accompanied by a fellow
    May i be so bold as to perhaps suggest othello
    Punting on the cam is jolly fun they say
    Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say
    Rugger is the tops, a game for men they say
    They say, good god they say

    I'm punting
    I'm beagling
    I'm wining
    Reclining
    I'm rucking
    I'm fucking
    So welcome
    It's a party

    Angie chalks another blue
    Mother smiles she did it too
    Chitters chat and gossips lash
    Posers pose, pressmen flash, flash
    Smiles polluted with false charm
    Locking on to royal arms
    Society columns now ensured
    Returns to mingle with the crowds
    Oh what a crowd

    Oh, punting on the cam
    Oh please do come they say
    Beagling on the downs
    Oh please so come they say
    Garden party held today they say
    Oh please do come
    Oh please do come, they say

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