[00:00.00]From Leave It To Jane (1917 Broadway Musical)

[00:01.00]Music By Jerome Kern

[00:02.00]Lyrics By P. G. Wodehouse

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[00:04.10][Verse]

[00:04.90]The days of chivalry are dead

[00:06.82]of which in stories we have read,

[00:08.64]When knights were bold

[00:09.70]and acted kind o' scrappy:

[00:12.12]When guys would take a lot of pains,

[00:14.02]And fight all day to please the Janes;

[00:15.99]And if their dame was tickled,

[00:17.44]they was happy

[00:19.70]But now the men are mild and meek,

[00:21.96]and seem to have a yellow streak;

[00:24.65]They never lay for other gents,

[00:26.70]to flatten 'em,

[00:28.52]They think they've done

[00:29.50]a darned fine thing,

[00:31.17]if they just buy the girl a ring

[00:33.21]of imitation diamonds and platinum.

[00:37.46][Burthen]

[00:39.01]It makes me sort of sad

[00:41.60]to read about Sir Galahad,

[00:43.97]Sir Lancelot, And all of them today:

[00:47.79]To amuse a girl and charm her,

[00:49.90]They would get into their armor,

[00:52.18]And they'd jump into the fray.

[00:55.72]They called her lady love,

[00:57.80]They used to wear her little glove,

[00:59.86]And ev'rything the girl said went:

[01:03.40]For them was the days

[01:05.61]when a lady was a lady

[01:07.45]and a gent was a perfect gent.

[01:11.78][Verse]

[01:13.19]Some night when they sat down to dine,

[01:15.05]Sir Claude would say: That girl of mine

[01:16.66]Makes ev'ry woman jealous

[01:17.80]when she sees her:

[01:20.11]Then someone else would yell "Behave!

[01:21.83]Thou malapert and scurvy knave!

[01:23.60]Or I will smite thee one upon the beezer!

[01:27.02]And then next morning, if you please,

[01:28.75]they'd dress in iron B. V. D's, And

[01:30.56]mount a pair of chargers highly mettled

[01:33.96]And when Sir Claude so fair and young,

[01:35.58]got punctured in the leg or lung,

[01:37.36]They looked upon the argument as settled.

[01:40.97][Burthen]

[01:42.68]It makes me sort of sad

[01:45.72]to read about Sir Galahad,

[01:48.25]Sir Lancelot, And all of them today:

[01:51.81]To amuse a girl and charm her,

[01:53.83]They would get into their armor,

[01:55.96]And they'd jump into the fray.

[01:59.51]They called her lady love,

[02:01.70]They used to wear her little glove,

[02:04.00]And ev'rything the girl said went:

[02:07.32]For them was the days

[02:09.24]when a lady was a lady

[02:11.37]and a gent was a perfect gent.

[02:15.09]

[02:30.00]They called her lady love,

[02:32.08]They used to wear her little glove,

[02:34.57]And ev'rything the girl said went:

[02:37.63]For them was the days

[02:39.84]when a lady was a lady

[02:42.00]and a gent was a perfect gent.

[02:45.45]For them was the days

[02:47.24]when a lady was a lady

[02:49.10]and a gent was a perfect gent.