Full-Blown Roses

Lyrics

[GIRLS, spoken, dressed to look plain and homely] Good day [OFFICERS, spoken] Good Lord! [HOWE & CLINTON] Such faces hardly bear inspection [TRYON] Their beauty is their own protection [GIRLS] A curtsy, sirs, we'll pay to you And say to you Good day to you We'll give our hearts away to you Let's have a little chat [OFFICERS] Your beauty is your surety Security for purity If one man can endure it, he Is blinder than a bat [GIRLS] Let us have a little chat Life has been so very flat Though we try to be platonic Love's chronic and that's that [OFFICERS & GIRLS] Your beauty is your surety (Let us have a little chat) Security for purity (Life has been so very flat) If one man can endure it, he (Though wе try to be platonic) Is blinder than a bat (Love's chronic and that's that) [MRS. MURRAY, spoken] Good day! [OFFICERS, spoken] Hooray! [MRS. MURRAY] Forgеt the enmity between us [GENERALS] Into the pigpen steps a Venus [OFFICERS] Full-blown roses are sweeter Full-blown blossoms are neater To hail a beauty when you meet her A British soldier knows [MRS. MURRAY] I'm transported to be courted By such gallant cavaliers You're such very welcome foes [TRYON] At your beck, ma'am, round your neck, ma'am We will dangle lavalieres As our admiration grows [GENERALS, OFFICERS & GIRLS] Youthful buds cannot beat her Every day your beauty grows Buds are sweet, she is sweeter We're very glad to meet her And greet her, our full-blown rose! [Dance.] [GENERALS, OFFICERS & GIRLS] Youthful buds cannot beat her Every day your beauty grows Buds are sweet, she is sweeter We're very glad to meet her And greet her, our full-blown rose!