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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: joke schema
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 19:38:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 19:38:54 1985
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In article <5953@rochester.UUCP> nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) writes:
>> All this is not unrelated to a song by Noel Coward which I can only half
>> remember. It goes something like this...
>> 
>> Can anyone supply the missing line, and some of the other verses??
>> Robert J Stroud,
>
>As I recall, the lines go
>	"Birds do it.
>	 Bees do it.
>	 Even educated fleas do it.
>	 Let's do it, let's fall in love.
>Nemo


The original song is by Cole Porter.  Noel Coward merely added some 
slightly more racy verses, such as:

	"They say that Belgians
	 And Greeks do it.
	 Nice young men who sell antiques do it.
	 Let's do it, let's fall in love."

	"They say that every 
	 hor-mone does it.
	 Mr. Portnoy all alone does it.
	 Let's do it, let's fall in love."

	"E. Allen Poe
	 Ho, ho, ho, did it,
	 But he did it in verse.

	 H. Beecher Stowe did it.
	 But she had to rehearse."

I believe that the "birds and bees" verse is Cole Porter's.
Noel Coward wrote a lot of amusing, sometimes slightly naughty (that's
definitely the right word) songs of his own, as well.  I'm particularly
fond of "Don't Put Your Daughter On the Stage, Mrs. Worthington", "Why
Do the Wrong People Travel?" ("What explains this mass mania/To leave
Pennsylvania?"), "The Passenger's Always Right" ("The passenger's always
right, my boys,/the passenger's always right./The son of a bitch/is probably
rich,/so smile with all your might."), and "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?"
-- 

        			Peter Reiher
        			reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
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