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No. 3 - Song - Sir George - "The Popular Art Of The Day"
| Sir George: | Though pictures as a connoisseur I don't pretend to criticize I know the points in painting that will make for notoriety A limb that's rather shapely or a hand and foot of pretty size With just a slight suspicion of a proper impropriety The Age that reads a Yellow Book delights to find how blue it is Today's artistic idols are tomorrow's on the shelfy ones But I prefer to Beardsley and his female incongruities The highly coloured posters that are genuine Adelphi ones Yet in Art to be sure As in Literature Eccentricity's certain to play For a dash and a dab Make a gee-gee and cab In the popular Art of the day, In the popular Art of the day. |
| The names of pictures classical I'm always apt to stammer on So wouldn't hang a Leighton, though, upon my walls possessing room But Mrs Patrick Campbell, Marie Lloyd and Violet Cameron Are fram'd to much advantage in the corners of my dressing room And when I say I really do not care for the Academy I hope I do not shock you for my words are not abruptly meant But honestly I MUCH prefer, though doubtless it's too bad o' me The coloured plate presented as a Christmas Extra Supplement Yet in Art to be sure As in Literature Eccentricity's certain to play For smudge and a smear Make an actress and Peer In the popular Art of the day, In the popular Art of the day. |
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| Now woman, with her violet eyes, her golden, brown or black tresses Makes just the sort of picture on a mantelpiece I'd stick me up And therefore I've become, because I'm fond of pretty actresses An annual subscriber both to Sketch, St Paul's and Pick-me-up I'm told it's very flippant, and of Art at best a sorry phase But scientist, and savant and the dry as dust Prideaux-er Would smile on Dudley Hardy's dashing ballet girls and caryphees So think of their attractions for a tender-hearted widower Yet in Art to be sure As in Literature Eccentricity's certain to play For a splash and a splurt Make a leg and a skirt In the popular Art of the day In the popular Art of the day. |
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