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India Flint's avatar

Oh Mickey, you’ve given me an earworm!! The song you referred to is from “My Fair Lady”, and begins “all I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air…”

https://youtu.be/q5fW7sERw7I?si=0ey1whSDYv6MjYxf

Mickey Robertson's avatar

Nup...there's another one! The refrain goes "and everything in the garden is luv-erly"!!!! But now I'm going to have Eliza Doolittle in my head all day!!!! X

India Flint's avatar

Tit for tat then, she’s still in my head hours later 😉

Mickey Robertson's avatar

We went out to dinner last night (we did what?????) and I had to laugh when a rather strange modern version of the song from My Fair Lady emanated from some hidden speakers!!! I've since been wondering if I had my wires crossed with an 'English Country Garden' but its tune is too demure...I just know the one I'm thinking of is more bawdy!

India Flint's avatar

I vaguely recall a risqué (well, for the sixties anyway) version of the ‘English Country Garden’ that contained a line about “little doggies calling cards” but it was a very long time ago…

Mickey Robertson's avatar

Ah...well, whatever it was you're in the right era now! It was a woman who sang it...

India Flint's avatar

Might it have been Joyce Grenfell?