Joyce Grenfell (1910 – 1979)
English film and television actress and comedienne.
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Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos.
They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.
I don't understand Ethel.
I don't, I don't really.
She's one of my very best friends,
Just about the best, nearly.
She's an awfully nice girl, Ethel is,
Dainty and refined,
I mean she'd never do or say
Anything unkind.
But get her inside a stadium
And she seems to go out of her mind.
Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?
I was allowed to slave for them
For ever and evermore.
Oh, I was allowed to fetch and carry
For my Three Brothers,
Jim and Bob and Harry.
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