8/16/2019 Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun Lyrics

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LORD ADALBERT:When you're lookin' down the barrel of a gunIt concentrates the mind completelyAnd suddenly you'll findA love for human kindThat makes you look upon the world more sweetly

When all at once it seems your life is doneYou recognize it all goes by so fleetlyThere's so much left to doExcept, of course, for youWhen you're lookin' down the barrel of a gun

When you're lookin' down the barrel of a gun (CHORUS: Down the gun)And the barrel looks right back at you demurely (Demurely)With an eye that seems to sayPerhaps you ought to praySo sorry that you're dyin' prematurely

You're grateful that you've had your share of fun (He's had his fun)Though you suppose you might have lived your life more purelyIt's ludicrous to careIt's neither here nor thereWhen you're starin' down the barrel of a gun

Oh, Lord, is this really your intention?Aren't men like me in short supply?Oh, Lord, I could use your interventionThis cannot be the way I'm meant to die

Do you really want to see me cryin'?

LADY EUGENIA:Get up at once, you're making a spectacle of yourself!

LORD ADALBERT:Eugenia. Put down the gun. Please. I know, I talk about game, bravery and courag

e,God save the queen and all that. But, I-I really don't want to die. I really, really don't!

Don't you know I've loved you like a son? (Like a son)And I do not mean to say this impolitely (Do... say... politely)Consider then, the viewI'd rather he'd presumeLooking down the barrel of a gun

Looking down the barrel of a (Barrel of a)

Uhhhh! (Dies.)

LADY EUGENIA:Oh, for heaven's sake. Get up you old goat! Adalbert! Adalbert? (Gasps.) Adalbert!

MONTY:What?

CHORUS:Gun!

8/16/2019 Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun Lyrics

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[Thanks to Daisy for lyrics]