Lah-Di-Dah
Jake Thackray Lyrics

Now we're agreed that we're in love
Now that we're both feeling love for each other

We'll have to face the lah-di-dah
We'll have to deal with all the fancy formalities and pretence

The eyewash, all of the fancy pantomime
The superficiality, showmanship, and spectacle

I love you very much
I have very strong feelings of love for you

I'll try love, I'll bill and coo
I'll try to express my love through affectionate terms and attention

With your gruesome Auntie Susan
When spending time with your unattractive and unpleasant Aunt

I'll stay calm, I'll play it cool
I'll remain composed and avoid showing annoyance or irritation

I'll let your tetchy uncles
I'll allow your bad-tempered uncles

Get me back up, cross my heart
To tease or provoke me while I promise to remain sincere

And I shan't get shirty when they say I look peculiar
And I won't get upset when they comment on my odd appearance

I'll be nice to your mother,
I'll be pleasant to your mother

I'll come all over lah-di-dah
I'll put on an act of formality and pretence

Although she always gets up me nose
Even though she always bothers me

And so I'll smile and I'll acquiesce
So I'll smile and agree with her

When she invites me to caress
When she invites me to pet her cat

Her scabby cat
Her unwell and possibly unsightly cats

I'll sit still while she knits
I'll remain quiet while she's knitting and chatting away

And witters, cross my heart
And prattles on, as I promise to be sincere

And I shan't lay a finger on the crabby old batface
And I won't touch the bad-tempered old woman

I'll be polite to your daddy,
I'll be courteous towards your father

Frightfully lah-di-dah
Excessively formal and pretentious

Although he always bores me to my boots,
Despite him always being extremely dull

And so I won't boo and hiss
And so I won't jeer or show disapproval

When he starts to reminisce
When he begins to recollect his past

I won't drop off, I won't flare up
I won't fall asleep or become annoyed

The runs he used to score
The goals he used to score

And how he won the war, cross my heart
And how he fought and won the war, as I promise to be sincere

But I'll have to grit me teeth when he goes on about his rupture
But I'll have to endure when he talks about his hernia

I'll behave at the wedding breakfast
I'll act appropriately at the wedding meal

I'll be lah-di-dah
I'll put on a formal and theatrical air

So help me, hearty toasts and risky jokes
So I'll try to participate in cheerful cheers and daring jests

So help me, I'll force a laugh
So I'll make myself laugh

For the flicking photographs
For the posed photos

So have no fear, I won't turn tail
So don't worry, I won't flee

I won't run amuck when the females chuck
I won't go wild when the women throw

Confetti in my ears
Confetti into my ears

And cross me heart love, I'll keep off the pale ale
And as I promise to be sincere love, I'll abstain from drinking light-colored beer

When we're off on our own
When we're alone together

No more lah-di-bloody-dah
No more pretentious formalities and showmanship

I promise, we just won't have the time
I promise we won't have time for that

We won't have time for such
We won't have time for such grand performances

Such fancy pantomimes
Such formal, theatre-like spectacles

I love you far too much
I love you way too much for that