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Flanders & Swann
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Design For Living (New Master)
Design for living
when we started making money
when we started making friends
We found a home as soon as we were able to
We bought this bijou residence
for about a thousand more than the house our little house was once the stable to
With charm
Colour values
Wit
And structural alteration
Now designed for graceful living
It has quite a reputation
We're terribly House and Garden
At number seven-B
We live in a most amusing muse
Ever so very contemporary
We're terribly House and Garden
The money that one spends
To make a place that won't disgrace
Our House and Garden friends
We've planned an uninhibited interior decor
Curtains made of straw
We've wallpapered the floor
We don't know if we like it
but at least we can be sure
There's no place like Home Sweet Home
It's fearfully Maison Jardin
At number seven-B
We've rediscovered the chandelier
Tres tres very contemporary
We're terribly House and Garden
Now at last we've got the chance
The garden's full of furniture
And the house is full of plants!
It doesn't make for comfort
But it simply has to be
'Cause we're ever so terribly up-to-date
Contemp-or-ar-or-y!
Have you a home that cries out to your every
visitor
'Here lives someone who is exciting to know'?
No?
Well, why not
collect those little metal bottle-
tops
and nail them upside-down to the floor?
This will
give the sensation
of walking
on little metal bottle-tops turned upside-down
Why not
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get hold of an ordinary Northumbrian
spokeshaver's coracle?
Paint it in contrasting stripes
of, say
telephone black and white white
and hang it
up in the hall for a guitar tidy for parties
Why not
drop in one evening for a mess of pottage?
Our speciality
just aubergine and carnation petals
With a six-shilling bottle of Mielle du Pap
a feast
fit for a king
I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the
eye-level grille
This means that without my having to bend down
the hot fat can squirt straight into my eyes!
We're frightfully House and Garden
At number seven-B
The walls are patterned with shrunken heads
Ever so very contemporary
Our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge
success
Though everywhere's so open
there's nowhere safe to dress!
With little screens
and bottle lamps
And motifs here and there
Mobiles in the air
Ivy everywhere!
You mustn't be surprised to meet a cactus on the
stair
But we call it Home Sweet Home
We're terribly House and Garden
As I think we've said before
But though seven-B is madly gay
It wouldn't do for every day
We actually live in seven-A
In the house next door!
Donald Swann having fortified himself with a glass of water
not just plain water
water enriched with Strontium 90
is now going to sing you his own modern setting
of a mid-19th century poem
which he will sing in french
Because this is a french poem
it's a french sonnet, actually
14 lines
or
1.4 of the new heavy lines
it's by the chap who used to go around with a lobster
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