Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-39097528-20200313030011/@comment-3182821-20200313123540

"Don't mess wiv him, 'cos he ain't playing games..." TS Eliot's finest work there. Ugh this version of the number is so dreary, so colourless, so humourless! The new duet is completely un-memorable, and was played straight, no comedy to it at all. Still, marginally better to have a really boring duet than no duet at all, Griddlebone appearing literally just to disappear again!

I'm afraid I don't have a good enough ear to pick out the Italian - it's mostly a re-arrangement of the original but I'm not quick enough to work it out. But it seems the same in the French recording as in the English. But I've got the English lyrics down. It's heavily accented, almost to the point of being a dialect, so I've kept the spellings more phonetic (Me manners.. not My manners, etc).