Nancy and Bet arrive; Nancy swigs gin, which she calls a small
pleasure.
NANCY: Small pleasures, small pleasures,
Who would deny us these?
Gin toddies -- large measures --
No skimping if you please!
I rough it. I love it.
Life is a game of chance.
I'll never tire of it --
Leading this merry dance.
If you don't mind having to go without things,
It's a fine life!
ALL : Fine life!
NANCY : And though it ain't all jolly old pleasure outings,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: When you've got someone to love,
You forget your cares and strife.
Let the prudes look down on us.
Let the wide world frown on us.
It's a fine, fine life!
BET and NANCY: Who cares if straightlaces
Sneer at us in the street?
Fine airs and fine graces
NANCY: Don't have to sin to eat.
BET and NANCY: We wander through London
Who knows what we many find?
There's pockets left undone
On many a behind.
NANCY: If you don't mind taking it like it turns out,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: And keep the candle burning until it burns out.
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: Though you sometimes do come by
The occasional black eye,
You can always cover one
While he blacks the other one,
But you don't dare cry.
BET: No flounces, no feathers,
No frills and furbelows.
All winds and all weathers
Ain't good for fancy clothes.
NANCY: These trappings,
BET: These tatters,
BET and NANCY: These we can just afford.
NANCY: What future?
BET: What matters:
BET and NANCY: We've got our bed and board.
NANCY: If you don't mind having to deal with Fagin,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: And though diseased rats threaten to bring the plague in,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: But the grass is green and dense
On the right side of the fence.
And we take good care of it
That we get our share of it
ALL: And we don't mean pence!
BET and NANCY: If you don't mind having to like or lump it,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: Though there's no tea-sippin' and eatin' crumpet,
It's a fine life!
ALL: Fine life!
NANCY: Not for me, the happy home:
Happy husband, happy wife.
Though it sometimes touches me,
For the likes of such as me,
Mine's a fine.
ALL: Fine life!
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