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Can That Boy Foxtrot! Lyrics by Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie

Side By Side By Sondheim (Original London Cast Recording)

1976

[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
We know this grocery clerk
Unprepossessing
Some think the boy's a jerk
They have our blessing
But when he starts to move
He aims to please
Which only goes to prove
That sometimes in a clerk you find a Hercules
[WOMAN 1]
He hasn't much that's plus
[WOMAN 2]
You might describe him thus:
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
A false alarm
A broken arm
An imitation Hitler and with littler charm
But oh, can that boy foxtrot!
[WOMAN 1]
His mouth is mean
[WOMAN 2]
He's not too clean
[WOMAN 1]
What makes him look reptilian
[WOMAN 2]
Is the brilliantine
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
But oh, can that boy foxtrot!
[WOMAN 1]
Who knows what I saw in him?
I took a chance
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
Oh, yes, one more flaw in him:
He can't dance
[WOMAN 2]
As dumbbells go
[WOMAN 1]
He's rather slow
[WOMAN 2]
And as for being saintly
[WOMAN 1]
Even faintly, no
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
But who needs Albert Schweitzer when the lights are low?
And oh boy, oh boy
Can that boy foxtrot!
Right now as I speak of him
I hear those drums
And oh, the technique of him
He's all thumbs
[WOMAN 1]
His jokes are quaint
[WOMAN 2]
And fairly faint
[WOMAN 1 & WOMAN 2]
He may be full of hokum but I've no complaint
He often is a bore, but on the floor he ain't
And oh boy, oh boy
Can that boy foxtrot!
Credits
Millicent Martin

Millicent Martin

Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie

About “Can That Boy Foxtrot!” by Millicent Martin

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