[00:00.000] 作曲 : Kern, Wodehouse
[00:00.00]From The Beauty Prize (1923 Broadway Musical)
[00:01.00]Music by Jerome Kern
[00:02.00]Lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse
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[00:03.30]Charles Augustus Chaytor,
[00:04.89]Wireless operator,
[00:06.65]Loved the fair,
[00:07.50]golden hair'd Bessie Magee.
[00:10.15]She lived in Darjeeling
[00:11.69]Avenue, West Ealing;
[00:13.44]He was always out at sea.
[00:17.91]Such was his devotion
[00:19.58]That went on the ocean,
[00:21.22]Ev'ry day,
[00:22.09]he'd relay greetings to Bess.
[00:24.76]But I'm told that sometimes
[00:26.78]There, alas, would come times,
[00:30.62]When he moan'd this S.O.S.:
[00:33.87][Refrain]
[00:35.00]You can't make love by wireless;
[00:38.81]It's like bread without the jam.
[00:42.32]There is nothing girls desire less
[00:45.95]Than a cold Marconi gram.
[00:49.63]For it's something you can't speak to
[00:53.19]From a someone you can't see-
[00:57.44]It's like a village church that's spire-less,
[01:01.61]Or a little home that's fire-less,
[01:05.49]Or a motor car that's tyre-less,
[01:11.15]And it isn't any good to me.
[01:14.51]
[01:16.73]Mark the horrid sequel,
[01:18.36]It is hard to equal;
[01:19.87]Fate with grim,
[01:20.63]tragic whim upset his dream.
[01:23.08]For that maiden fickle
[01:24.67]Wed a man from Crickle-
[01:26.15]-wood who kept a laundry steam.
[01:30.82]Charles, poor man, thus jilted,
[01:32.71]Naturally wilted;
[01:34.33]Soured he grew,
[01:35.21]Gloomy too, quite lost his smile.
[01:38.42]Never more his jokes'll
[01:41.12]Entertain the fo'csle;
[01:44.72]He keeps muttering all the while:
[01:48.39][Refrain]
[01:50.04]You can't make love by wireless;
[01:54.51]It's like eggs without the ham.
[01:58.07]There is nothing girls desire less
[02:02.14]Than a cold Marconi gram.
[02:05.71]For it's something you can't speak to
[02:09.98]From a someone you can't see-
[02:14.43]It's like a village church that's spire-less,
[02:19.08]Or a Selfridges that's buyer-less,
[02:23.91]Or a Pekingese that's sire-less,
[02:35.00]And it isn't any good to me!