[ti:I Wonder What Happened To Him?]
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[00:00.00]I Wonder What Happened To Him - Noel Coward and Orchestra
[00:08.24]The india that one read about
[00:10.00]And may have been misled about
[00:11.72]In one respect has kept itself intact
[00:15.43]Though pukka sahib' traditions may have cracked
[00:18.11]And thinned
[00:19.06]The good old indian army's still a fact
[00:22.59]That famous monumental man
[00:24.48]The officer and gentleman
[00:26.21]Still lives and breathes and functions from bombay to katmandu
[00:29.84]At any moment one can glimpse
[00:32.25]Matured or embryonic blimps'
[00:34.46]Vivaciously speculating as to what became of who
[00:38.47]Though eastern sounds may fascinate your ear
[00:42.86]When west meets west you're always sure to hear
[00:48.72]Whatever became of old bagot
[00:50.97]I haven't seen him for a year
[00:53.44]Is it true that young forbes had to marry that faggot
[00:55.79]He met in the vale of kashmir
[00:58.25]Have you had any news
[00:59.14]Or that chap in the blues
[01:00.11]Was it prosser or pyecroft or pym
[01:03.90]He was stationed in simla or was it bengal
[01:07.82]I know he got blind at a ball in nepal
[01:11.40]And wrote several four-letter words on the wall
[01:13.88]I wonder what happened to him
[01:18.33]Whatever became of old shelley
[01:20.88]Is it true that young briggs was cashiered
[01:23.82]For riding quite nude on a push-bike through delhi
[01:26.13]The day the new viceroy appeared
[01:29.29]Have you had any word
[01:29.98]Of that bloke in the third
[01:31.27]Was it southerby sedgwick or sim
[01:35.77]They had him thrown out of the club in bombay
[01:38.71]For apart from his mess bill exceeding his pay
[01:42.01]He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way
[01:44.88]I wonder what happened to him
[01:49.79]One must admit that by and large
[01:51.34]Upholders of the british raj*
[01:53.26]Don't shine in conversation as a breed
[01:57.07]Though indian army officers can read
[01:59.86]A bit
[02:00.75]Their verbal wit-has rather run to seed
[02:04.37]Their splendid insularity
[02:06.21]And roguish jocularity
[02:08.05]Was echoing through India when victoria was queen
[02:11.74]In restaurants and dining-cars
[02:14.56]In messes clubs and hotel bars
[02:17.46]They try to maintain tradition in the way it's always been
[02:21.89]Though worlds may change and nations disappear
[02:27.12]Above the shrieking chaos you will hear
[02:33.24]Whatever became of old tucker
[02:36.21]Have you heard any word of young mills
[02:39.07]Who ruptured himself at the end of a chukka
[02:40.75]And had to be sent to the hills
[02:43.36]They say that young lees
[02:45.23]Had a go of d t's'
[02:47.00]And his hopes of promotion are slim
[02:50.00]According to stubbs who's a bit of a louse
[02:53.24]The silly young blighter went out on a souse
[02:56.72]And took two old tarts into government house
[02:59.46]I wonder what happened to him
[03:04.03]Whatever became of old archie
[03:06.88]I hear he departed this life
[03:09.35]After rounding up ten sacred cows in karachi
[03:12.74]To welcome the governor's wife
[03:15.24]D'you remember munroe
[03:17.01]In the p a v o
[03:18.69]He was tallish and mentally dim
[03:21.98]The talk of heredity can't be quite true
[03:24.82]He was dropped on his head by his ayah at two
[03:28.82]I presume that by now he'll have reached g h q
[03:32.39]I'm sure that's what happened to him