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Patience: When I First Put This Uniform On - Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
When I first put this uniform on
I said as I looked in the glass
It's one to a million
That any civilian
My figure and form will surpass
Gold lace has a charm for the fair
And I've plenty of that and to spare
While a lover's professions
When uttered in Hessians
Are eloquent everywhere
A fact that I counted upon
When I first put this uniform on
By a simple coincidence few
Could ever have counted upon
The same thing occurred to me
When I first put this uniform on
I said when I first put it on
It is plain to the veriest dunce
That every beauty
Will feel it her duty
To yield to its glamour at once
They will see that I'm freely gold-laced
In a uniform handsome and chaste
But the peripatetics
Of long-haired aesthetics
Are very much more to their taste
Which I never counted upon
When I first put this uniform on
By a simple coincidence few
Could ever have counted upon
I didn't anticipate that
When I first put this uniform on