Michael Crawford — Elegance

[Verse 1] [CORNELIUS & BARNABY] Yes, New York, it's really us Barnaby and Cornelius [IRENE & MINNIE] All the guests of Mr. Hackl are Feeling great and look spectacular [ALL] What a knack there is to that Acting like a born aristocrat We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance You can never, ever carry it off [Verse 2] [CORNELIUS] All who are well-bred agree Minnie Fay has pedigree [IRENE] Exercise your wildest whims tonight We are out with diamond Jims tonight [MINNIE] Could they be misleading us? [CORNELIUS & BARNABY] Silver spoons were used for feeding us [ALL] We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance You can never, ever carry it off [Verse 3] Snobs that slobs throw roses at We look down our noses at [MINNIE] Pity all the other girls around When I swing my perfect pearls around [BARNABY] Snubbing folks is chic to us [CORNELIUS] Sometimes we don't even speak to us [ALL] If you ain't got elegance You can never, ever carry it off [THE DOG'S OWNER, spoken] If you please [Verse 4] [ALL] Middle class, don't speak of this Savoire-faire, we reek of this Some were born with rags and patches but We use dollar bills for matches and [MINNIE] Vanderbilt kowtows to us [CORNELIUS] J. P. Morgan scrapes and bows to us [ALL] We've got elegance, we were born with elegance [BARNABY] I behave like Walter Rauleigh when the streets are full of mud [MINNIE] And the bluest huckleberry isn't bluer than my blood [IRENE] Have you noticed when I hold my cup the saucer never moves? [CORNELIUS] And the way I keep my pinkie up indubitably proves that [ALL] We got elegance, we got built-in elegance [MINNIE] And with elegance [BARNABY] Elegance [IRENE] Elegance [CORNELIUS] Elegance [ALL] Elegance We'll carry it off