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Off to the Races (Chairman, Durdles, Deputy, With Ensemble)
Jerome Dempsey, Stephen Glavin, George Rose & Edwin Drood Original Broadway Cast
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Quick conclusions often lead the best of us astray.
The wisest move in life is just to wait;
otherwise our galloping emotions run away
Like horses at the gate.
Off to the races,
off to the races,
off to the race we go.
But where the chase is,
and what the pace is,
we seldom seem to know.
Men with broken hearts have vowed to never more pursue
a member of the soft and savoured race.
Firmly anchored to the ground the suddenly will view
A fair and favoured face
Then: off to the races,
off to the races,
when flirting faces call.
His saving grace is soft drink replaces
the need for love at all.
Don't fall back on your assumptions;
Hasty presumptions might do you in!
Mind the track like a nag running blind;
try lagging behind, you'll find you'll win.
Bless our Queen Victoria; she's had nine kids to date.
You wonder how Prince Albert got enthused;
Probably by her decree he had to procreate.
Said she: "Make me amused."
Off to the races
The royal races
The same as poor folk do
When she embraces, her royal grace is
the same in wants as you.-
And the race is won by the tardy
Not the foolhardy fools that we be.
Don't unlace your madcap abandon,
do and you'll land undone, not me!
So we call upon you all to hold your horse's reins.
before you solve this dickens of a crime.
Sometimes having patience is as good as having brains
So take your bloody time!
Pour out the spirits
The end is near; it's
only a length or so.
Don't begin to beat your tar off for the finish isn't far off,
to the races, races, Whoa!
Off to the race we go! Tally ho!
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