GILT-AGE BERTIE
by
Gerald Grafton & Harry Lauder
contributed by Bruce McCausland

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Girls admire me.. just upon me feast your eyes;
Don't my getup fairly knock you with surprise?
Ain't I clobber'd up immense? Quite regardless of expense!
In a beauty show I'd surely take the prize.
All the chappies are quite jealous, don't you know,
Of my getup and no matter where I go,
When in public I', appearing,
those words are constantly I',m hearing
"Charming fellah! who is he? What! don't you know?"

Chorus
I'm gilt-edged Bertie, with a gilt-edge smile
A gilt-edged eyeglass and a gilt-edged "tile;"
I've a gilt-edged bankbook  and a gilt-edged life.
And all the girls would like to be my gilt-edged wife.

Verse 2

Down at Epsom, Ascot, good-wood I'm all there!
Observed of all observers, I declare!
Pet of Duchesses a few.. "Ah dear Bertie! How d'you do?"
Whilst the crowds all gather round at me to stare.
Seek my old friend Lord Van Codem such a rip!
Sure to know the winner, puts me on a "snip"
Round the course then goes the rumour ,
"Bertie's backed it! it's a stumer!"
And that's just the way I let my thousands slip!

2nd Chorus
Silly gilt-edged Bertie, with a gilt-edge smile
A gilt-edged eyeglass and a gilt-edged "tile;"
I've a gilt-edged bankbook  and a gilt-edged life.
And all the girls would like to be my gilt-edged wife.

Verse 3

It's a luxury for any pretty miss
Just to sample my would famous gilt-edged kiss.
And my patent gilt-edged smile kills the ladies at a mile.
They all vow it's simply perfect gilt-edged bliss.
If I take a little toddy down the Strand,
Girls all flock around to shake my gilt-edged hand;
Then quite shock'd at me they're staring
When I do some gilt-edged swearing
In a language far more forcible than grand.

3rd Chorus
Naughty gilt-edged Bertie, with a gilt-edge smile
A gilt-edged eyeglass and a gilt-edged "tile;"
I've a gilt-edged bankbook  and a gilt-edged life.
And all the girls would like to be my gilt-edged wife.

Verse 4

When you've lots of money, what a beastly bore!
You find heaps of friends you never knew before.
They will "spot" you just in once and take your for a dunce,
Praise and flattery both loud and long they'll roar.
You're quite ignorant of ev'ry gilt-edged rule;
In short, you know, you're just a anamiable fool.
And your duty is (for I know) to dish out your gilt-edged "rhino,"
And let ev'rybody use you as a tool.

4th Chorus
Just like gilt-edged Bertie, with a gilt-edge smile
A gilt-edged eyeglass and a gilt-edged "tile;"
I've a gilt-edged bankbook  and a gilt-edged life.
And all the girls would like to be my gilt-edged wife.
 
 

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