Lah-Di-Dah - Jake Thackray

Now we’re agreed that we’re in love

We’ll have to face the lah-di-dah,

The eyewash, all of the fancy pantomime

I love you very much

I’ll try love, I’ll bill and coo

With your gruesome Auntie Susan

I’ll stay calm, I’ll play it cool

I’ll let your tetchy uncles

Get me back up, cross my heart

And I shan’t get shirty when they say I look peculiar

I’ll be nice to your mother,

I’ll come all over lah-di-dah

Although she always gets up me nose

I love you very much

And so I’ll smile and I’ll acquiesce

When she invites me to caress

Her scabby cat

I’ll sit still while she knits

And witters, cross my heart

And I shan’t lay a finger on the crabby old batface

I’ll be polite to your daddy,

Frightfully lah-di-dah

Although he always bores me to my boots,

I love you very much

And so I won’t boo and hiss

When he starts to reminisce

I won’t drop off, I won’t flare up The runs he used to score

And how he won the war, cross my heart

But I’ll have to grit me teeth when he goes on about his rupture

I’ll behave at the wedding breakfast

I’ll be lah-di-dah

So help me, hearty toasts and risky jokes

I love you very much

So help me, I’ll force a laugh

For the flicking photographs

So have no fear, I won’t turn tail

I won’t run amuck when the females chuck

Confetti in my ears

And cross me heart love, I’ll keep off the pale ale

When we’re off on our own

No more lah-di-bloody-dah

I promise, we just won’t have the time

We won’t have time for such

Such fancy pantomimes

I love you far too much