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  • Ladies in Girdles 2
There is Nothing Like a Queen (Tune - There is Nothing Like a Dame: South Pacific)
We've had Menzies, we've had Holt, we've had Arthur Caldwell too Tom M'boya and Tun Razak, and a speech by Lee Kwan Yu But now we've got a question: can you tell us why it is If we've had all these we ain't had Liz? If we have visits from the Heads of States here represented Why hasn't the leader of our glorious Commonwealth ever been presented? There is nothing like a queen Of good British (German) Stock Nothing would brighten up the scene Like a visit from our Queen No-one serves like a queen Or observes like a queen The reserves of a queen We deserves us a queen There's not a leader in this whole damn world For whom we'd rather see our flag unfurled Than our own victorious Happy and glorious Long to reign over us Queen When we have a world leader the guests come by the score Just for Sir Robert Menzies some were seated on the floor And when the Governor General came we had to put up tents Not to have the Queen for once it don't make sense Just think of on the night we have the Queen here Of all the different people trying to be seen here There would be nothing like the Queen To help our appeal Think of all the cash upon the scene With a visit from our Queen No-one's endowed like a queen To draw a crowd like a queen Money's loud round a queen She'd do us proud would the Queen We're not just thinking of financial gain Even to us it's clearly plain We could all be televised With our highly publicised Queen We're not greedy; we'll agree to any Royalty we can Young Charlie, Tony, Margaret, the Queen Mother, Princess Anne Or Phillip if he promised not one rude four-letter word But of all the Royal Family the Queen's preferred Just think of seeing seated in our High Chair All resplendent in her Jewels of State our Queen there There would be nothing like the Queen Eating in our Hall And nothing goes with 'Cheese and Greens' Like a prepared speech from a queen No-one can rise like a queen Eulogise like a queen Or relies like our Queen On "My husband and I's" like our Queen We want to have our Queen to tea Before our leaders finally agree To kick out the Regents Change our allegiance To All the Way with L.B.J.
Ideas and first verse by Julian Gardner. This is the first of the IH songs that Julian and I wrote together

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