Ascot Gavotte (From "My Fair Lady") - Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Robert Coote

Ladies and Gentlemen

Ev’ry duke and earl and peer is here

Ev’ryone who should be here is here.

What a smashing, positively dashing

Spectacle: the Ascot op’ning day.

At the gate are all the horses

Waiting for the cue to fly away.

What a gripping, absolutely ripping

Moment at the Ascot op’ning day.

Pulses rushing!

Faces flushing!

Heartbeats speed up!

I have never been so keyed up!

And second now They’ll begin to run.

Hark!

A bell is ringing, They are springing Forward Look!

It has begun!!!

What a frenzied moment that was!

Didn’t they maintain an exhausting pace?

'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling Running of the

Ascot op’ning race.