I’ve Been to a Marvelous Party - The Divine Comedy

You know quite for no reason
I'm here for the season
And high as a kite
Living in error
With Maud at Cap Ferret
Which couldn't be right
Everyone's here and frightfully gay
Nobody cares what people say
Though the Riviera
Seems really much queerer
Than Rome at its height
On Wednesday night
I went to a marvellous party
With Noonoo and Nada and Nell
It was in the fresh air
And we went as we were
And we stayed as we were
Which was hell
Poor Grace started singing at midnight
And she didn't stop singing 'til four
We knew the excitement was bound to begin
When Laura got blind on Dubonnet and gin
And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin
I couldn't have liked it more
I've been to a marvellous party
We played a wonderful game：
Maureen disappeared
And came back in a beard
And we all had to guess at her name
Cecil arrived wearing armour
Some shells and a black feather boa
Poor Millicent wore a surrealist comb
Made of bits of mosaic from St Peter's in Rome
But the weight was so great that she had to go home
And I couldn't have liked it more
I've been to a marvellous party
I must say the fun was intense
We all had to do
What the people we knew
Might be doing a hundred years hence
We talked about growing old gracefully
And Elsie who's seventy four'
Said 'A
It's a question of being sincere
And B
If you're supple you've got nothing to fear'
Then she swung upside down from a chandelier
And I couldn't have liked it more
It was the most fabulous excitement
I've never seen such a carry on
Obviously it couldn't happen
Anywhere else but on the Riviera
It was most peculiar
You know people's behaviour
Away from Belgravia
Would make you aghast
So much variety
Watching society
Scampering past
You know if you have any mind at all
Gibbon's divine 'Decline And Fall'
Well it sounds pretty flimsy No more than a whimsy
By way of contrast
On Wednesday last
I went to a marvellous party
We didn't sit down 'til ten
You know young Bobby Carr
Did a stunt at the bar
With a lot of extraordinary men
And then Freda arrived with a turtle
Which shattered us all to the core
And then the duchess passed out at a quarter to three
And suddenly Cyril cried 'fiddle de dee '
Then he ripped off his trousers
And jumped in the sea
And I couldn't have liked it more
I've been to a marvellous party
Elyse made an entrance with May
You'd never have guessed
From her fisherman's vest
That her bust had been whittled away
Poor Lulu got fried on Chianti
And talked about esprit de corps
Louise made a couple of passes at Gus
And Freddie who hates any kind of a fuss
Did half the Big Apple and twisted his truss ha ha
I couldn't have liked it more