"Lady come down!"

Colin Firth and Rupert Everett

in

"The Importance Of Being Earnest"

 

[Talking]

 

[Rupert] 

After you, dear boy

 

[Colin] 

Oh, no after you

 

[Rupert] 

No, no, you go first 

 

[Rupert] 

I'm not really very good at the high bits, much better low

 

[Colin] 

Well, we'll see

 

[Colin] 

mmmmm

 

[Rupert]

One, two and 

 

[Singing]

 

[Colin]

The western wind is blowing fair

Across the dark Ægean sea

 

[Rupert]

And at the secret marble stair,

My Tyrian galley waits for thee

 

[Together]

Come down! the purple sail is spread,

The watchman sleeps within the town,

O leave thy lilyflowered bed,

O Lady mine come down!

 

[Colin & choir]

Come down!

Lady come down, come down!

Lady come down!

O Lady come down!

 

[Together]

She will not come I know her well,

of lovers vows she hath no care,

and little good a man can tell,

of one so cruel and so fair

 

[Colin]

True love is but a woman's toy,

They never know the lover's pain, 

 

[Rupert]

And I who loved as loves a boy

Must love in vain, 

 

[Together]

must love in vain

 

[Colin & choir]

Come down! Come down!

Lady come down, come down!

Come down!

oohooh

Lady come down!

 

[Talking]

 

[Colin]

I think your high notes may have damaged our chances, old boy

You do want them to come down, don't you?

 

[Rupert]

But she'll never come down, if you sing like that

You're completely out of tune

 

[Colin]

How dare you!

 

[Rupert]

I'll take this bit

 

[Colin]

You leave this to me! You go and have a lie down, old man

 

[Rupert]

No, I'll take this bit

 

[Colin]

Out of my way! I'm coming through!

 

[Rupert]

Go easy, my dear fellow

 

[Colin]

Come down!!

 

[Singing and Talking]

 

[Colin & choir]

Come down! Come down!

Lady come down! 

 

[Rupert]

Overdoing it, less is more

 

[Colin & choir]

Come down!

Come down!

oohooh

Lady come down!

 

[Talking]

 

[Colin]

That wasn't so bad, was it?

 

[Colin]

mmmmmm

 

[Rupert]

Maybe they're not going to come down, maybe we should go up

Maybe we should go up

 

[Colin]

Algy, you're always talking nonsense

 

[Rupert]

Well that's better than listening to it

 

[Colin in a very low voice]

Lady come down!

 

[Rupert]

doobydoobydoobydoo

 

[Rupert sighs]