Why Do The Wrong People Travel chords

Noël Coward

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Travel they say improves the mind, 
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an irritating platitude,  
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which frankly, entre nous,  
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is very far from true. 

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Personally I've yet to find  
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that longitude and latitude  
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can educate those scores 
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of monumental bores 
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who travel in groups  
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and herds and troupes  
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of various breeds and sexes 
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Till the whole world reels  
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to shouts and squeals 
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and the clicking of Roliflexes 

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Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel 
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When the right people stay back home? 

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What compulsion compels them 
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and who the hell tells them 
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To drag their bags to Zanzibar 
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instead of staying quietly in O - ma     ha? 

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The Taj Mahal  
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and the Grand Canal 
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and the sunny French Riviera 
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would be less oppressed  
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If the Middle West  
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would settle for somewhere  
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rather nearer 

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Please do not think that  
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I criticize or cavil  
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at a genuine urge to roam 

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but why oh why do the wrong people travel 
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when the right people stay back home  
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and mind their bus'ness 
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when the right people stay back home  
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with television 
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when the right people stay back home 
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I'm merely asking why the right people stay back home? 



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Just when you think romance is ripe  
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it rather sharply dawns on you  
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that each sweet serenade 
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is for the tourist trade 


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Any attractive native type  
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who resolutely fawns on you  
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will give as his address 
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American Express 


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There isn't a rock  
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between Bangkok  
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and the beaches of Hispianola 
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That does not recoil from  
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suntan oil and the gurgle of Coca-Cola 

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C   Cmaj7  Dm7    Cdim  C     G7      C   
Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel 
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When the right people stay back home? 
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What explains this mass mania 
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to leave Pennsylvania 
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and clack around like flocks of geese  
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demanding dry martinis? 
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On the isles of   Greece? 


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In the smallest street 
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where the gourmets meet, 
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they invariably fetch up 
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and it's hard to make them accept a steak  
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that isn't served rare  
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and smeared with ketchup 


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It would take years to unravel, ravel ravel 

every impulse that makes them roam 

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but why oh why do the wrong people travel 
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when the right people stay back home  
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and eat hot doughnuts, 
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when the right people stay back home  
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with all that lettuce 
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when the right people stay back home  
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I sometimes wonder why the right people stay back home 


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C   Cmaj7  Dm7    Cdim  C     G7      C   
Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel 
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When the right people stay back home? 
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What peculiar obsessions  
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inspire those processions 
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of families from Houston, Tex., 
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with all those cameras  
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around their necks?  
    	

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