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His Excellency Regrets chords by 
Noël Coward 
N/A•
Verse 1
D
In Pacific 1860,
there was concerted
number
in which the young
ladies of the household
implored the ADC
G
D
s from Government House
G
D
to outline their official duties.
G
I would like to sing for you their reply,
D
Em
A
His Excellency Regrets.
D
Now listen please,
Am
D
G
I'll tell you confidentially,
Am
D
G
How ADCs are trained in social grace.
C
They must be brave,
G
Em
for daily they are called upon
A
Ebdim
D
to save His Excellency's face.
Em
D
Any explanations of the duties
G
of an A .D .C.
D
Em
prove the complications that are
D
G
rife at Government House.
B
E
Certain situations
B
E
they could never let a lady see.
B
E
There are strange vibrations
B
E
in the life at Government House.
D
Em
Truth is often sac rificed
D
G
for reasons of diplomacy.
Em
E
A
That, of course, you understand
F#m
B
Em
D
But all the same it must be grand to be
A
So suave, so calm, so dignified
F
E
If you knew what all that signified
A
C#
They who break the Ninth
F#m
Commandment every day
B
Would hang their heads in
A
shame and say
Em
Forgive, we have to live
E
Bm
E
Of ficially on feet of clay
A
Every minute we're made to sin
It is really very depraved
Asus4
A
But to hell with the lies we tell
Em
A
His Excellency's honour
D
A
D
A
D
Em
A
D
must be saved
Em
D
His Excellency regrets
A
D
That owing to an attack of gout
E
He really dare not venture out
Asus4
A
On Saturday to dine
D
His Excellency regrets
A
D
That owing to doctor's orders
A
D
E
He cannot attend the mission tea
A
D
And also must decline
Your kind invitation,
G
D
G
for Wednesday week,
Am
D
A slight operation,
G
D
and poor circulation,
F#
Bm
Combined with a weedy physique,
E
A
Has made him unable to speak.
D
G
All this in addition to what,
E
The doctors describe as a clot,
D
Which may disappear by the end of the year,
A
But may very possibly not,
D
A
His Ex cellency regrets,
D
A
That owing to his exalted state,
D
E
He can no more associate with
F#
amiable brunettes,
Bm
F#m
Walk up, walk up,
D
we're willing to take
E
Take your bets,
D
Em
A
that that's one of the principal things
D
His Excellency regrets.
Am
D
So now you know about the
G
diplomatic whore,
Am
How it can so corrupt
D
G
the soul of youth.
C
Cm
Imagine if someday they gave
G
Em
the waiting world
D
Ebdim
A
A whiff of plain unvarnished truth.
D
Em
His Excellency regrets
A
D
A
that failing a better alibi,
D
E
He must admit he'd rather die
A
than open your bazaar.
D
A
D
His Ex cellency regrets that lack
ing enough official scope
A
D
E
He can't disband the Band of Hope
A
D
no matter where they are
G
D
G
He frankly despises the people he rules
D
G
D
His gorge also rises when giving the prizes
G
F#
Bm
At co -educational schools
E
A
to rows of illiterate fools
D
G
And if you should write in the book,
E
he'll give you a murderous look
D
For he ru ins his day to be taken away
A
from his rod and his line and his hook
D
His excellency regrets,
A
D
A
he hasn't enough to run the house
D
or pay the staff
E
G
F#
or feed a mouse upon the pay he gets.
A
D
Hey ho, hey ho,
he's up to his ears in debts,
but that's one of the least of
A
the things
D
his excellency regrets.
A
D
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Ebdim
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