Step inside and take your seat
The show is starting soon,
The limelight lit and ready for the cast.
Sit right down and rest your feet,
The curtain and festoon
Will soon be raised to start the fun at last.
First will be the dancing girls
So eager to impress;
Kicking high, correctly in a row.
Appearing like a string of pearls,
Each in dazzling dress,
Waving to the menfolk as they go.
Champagne Charlie takes the stage,
The handsome lion comique;
Singing merry, witty songs with ease.
The stylish darling of the age
Performing, tongue in cheek,
Daring as the man on the trapeze.
Now music halls have closed their doors,
Those palaces of laughter
Are crumbled echoes of the past somehow;
Trouveurs from distant shores
Are lost forever after,
So, Champagne Charlie Leybourne take a bow
ASJ