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Lyrics for Westport by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Westport | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 174 | | | | Lyrics: | Westport
There's a little ranch house in the vale,
Pretty little ranch house up for
sale;
All the shutters drawn,
Tenants all gone
And thereby hangs a long, unhappy
tale.
'Cause he caught her in the kitchen playing Westport,
A game indigenous to
suburban life,
Where you take a wife of whom you're not the husband,
While someone else's
husband takes your wife.
Some people may claim that the name of the game is Scarsdale,
Or
Beverly Hills, or even Shaker Heights,
But commuters from Manhattan call it Westport.
And
it's the game that some of our local leading lights
Play
To while away those cold
Connecticut nights.
Now in that little ranch house used to dwell
An advertising
feller and his Nell.
Two kids and a pup,
Living it up,
And everything was sounder
than a bell ---
'Til he caught her in the kitchen playing Westport
Between the
washing machine and thermostat.
The husband thought it really was an outrage.
Said he,
"You might at least remove your hat!"
Well, they may play it that way in Great Neck,
While
in Levittown they'd never think it odd.
But there is not an architect in Westport
Who'll
ever forgive the cad that said, "My God!
Sir.
I must have got the wrong cape
cod!"
Since they are no longer groom and bride,
Quoting from the Sunday
classified:
"Are there any takers
For three lovely acres
Of peaceful old New England
countryside?"
'Cause he caught her in the kitchen playing Westport
Which would
ordinarily be a cause for gloom;
But though the sanctity of wedlock's on the
downgrade,
Currently housing is enjoying quite a boom!
And while they defame the name of
the game in Boston,
Where naturally they think it's a dirty shame,
In the green and
fertile pastures of suburbia
The local dealers in real estate acclaim
It
The best
thing since the FHA, hey,
Westport is a grand old ...
'Midst pleasures and palaces
...
Westport is a grand old game.
Source: Take Five, A Julius Monk Review, ca
1952-1954
Recorded: Original cast record (Riverside?)
Pearl Bailey
Will
Holt
Version somewhat doctored By R. Greenhaus
@love @adultery @house
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