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Well, well, well

«Let's have a drink on it»

As me father used to say

When the truth is nobly spoken

Its respect you got to pay

So fill your cup and lift it up

and clink, here’s how

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!!!

(Angie gets the idea to leave Philadelphia and join the foreign legion.)

Well, well, well

«Let's have a drink on it»

to the fightin' legionaries!

To their outposts in the desert

and their gorgeous Croix de Guerres

To sailing for Bengasi

on a rusty scow!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!!!

(Angie leaves to go to Bengasi.)

(spoken) I can’t let him get away! We’ll never get things patched up!

(Screams) Sir! A moment of your time Sir! Just a moment!

What do you do when the water’s gone

And there’s no turning back?

You’re four days from the fort

The Arab renegades attack!

And the blistering sun keeps burning

Reinforcement can’t come through

What do you do about it?

What do you do about it?!

(Spoken) Do you blister easily?

(Spoken) Yes, as a matter of fact.

(Spoken) Ah, the foreign legion is not for you. Drink up.

(Angie gets the idea to renounce his name and fortune and become a regular

person.)

Well, well, well

«Let's have a drink on it»

To the simple average life!

To wages every Friday

That you bring home to the wife!

To the sweat of honest labor

On your average brow

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!!!

(Spoken) Hey! Set 'em up Clancy!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!

(Angie goes out to make a new name for himself.)

What do you do when you loose your job?

The rent is overdue?

The Landlord throws you in the street

The Wife, the kiddies, too!

And the sleet and snow are falling

And you got no place to go?

(Man starts crying)

(Spoken) Will you shut your face?! Can’t you see I’m talking to the gentleman?!

What do you do about it?

What do you do about it?!

(Spoken) The simple, average life, sir. No.

(Angie decides to go off to China and make a fortune in the pearl trade.)

Well, well, well

«Let's have a drink on it»

Here’s to China 'cross the bay

To them darling little oysters

And the pearls they give away!

A man could make his fortune there

I will somehow!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

I’m off to China now!

No shilly shallying

No dillydallying

He’s off to China now!!!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have another one, Sir!!!

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying!

(Musical Interlude)

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

I’m off to China now!

Well, well, well,

One last drink on it

Then you’re on your merry way!

What do you do when your sampan springs a leak in China Bay?

When the truth is nobly spoken

It’s respect you got to pay

Them Oriental Pirates come and take your pearls away!

So fill your cup and lift it up

And clink, here’s how

(Spoken) Do you eat fish heads?

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!

(Spoken) Are you immune to yellow fever?

No shilly shallying

No dilly dallying

Let’s have a drink on it now!!!

(Spoken during the singing) Bubonic Plague! Monsoons! Locusts! The Screaming

abdabs! Oh the shame of it all!

(The song ends with a giant bar fight.)

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