Jeeves & Wooster - Minnie The Moocher Is Alive And Well And Living In Berkley Square текст песни

This is the story of Minnie the Moocher
She was a low-down hoochie coocher
She was the roughest toughest frail
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale
Ho de ho de ho (Ho de ho de ho)
Rah de rah de rah (Rah de rah de rah)
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale

- You know, I can't help feeling, Jeeves, that I could do better justice to this song if I understood what the words meant.
- Oh, I doubt that, sir.
- I mean all this "Ho de ho de ho" stuff is pretty clear. What do you suppose a hoochie coocher is exactly?
- It is difficult to say, sir. Unless it's in connection with one of the demotic American words for ardent spirits. I'm thinking of "hooch", a word of Eskimo origin, I'm informed.
- Tut. You bally well are informed, Jeeves! Do you know everything?
- I really don't know, sir.

She had a dream about the King of Sweden
He gave her things that she was needin'

- Now you see that is clever, Jeeves
- Really, sir?
- That line about the "king of Sweden" and "things she was needin'"
- Yes, his majesty king Gustav does seem to have been extraordinarily generous to the young lady, sir.
- No, no, no... I mean the fact that it rhymes. You see? Sweden... needin'.
- Almost, sir.

He gave her a home built of gold and steel
A platinum car with diamond-studded wheels
Ho de ho de ho (Ho de ho de ho)

- I say, Jeeves, could you land a hand, do you think?
- Very good, sir.
- It's just a little bit difficult, you know, being just the one of me... It's a the sort of choral response thing. I sing "ho de ho de ho" and you have to go "ho de ho de ho" back, you understand?
- I think so, sir.

[singing]

- Yes. I don't mean to be overly critical, Jeeves. I mean, I know you're doing your best.
- Thank you, sir.
- I just think that perhaps we could dispense with this «sir» at the end of every line. I mean, you know, it shows the proper feudal spirit and all that but I'm afraid it does ut it does play merry hell with the rhythm of the thing.
- Very good, sir.
- All right.

[more singing]