Singer: Emily Blunt
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Song: A Cover Is Not the Book
Emily Blunt - A Cover Is Not the Book Lyrics (LRC) (05:04-304-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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[00:01.97]It is my great honor to introduce this evening's renowned guest,
[00:04.00]the one, the only, Mary Poppins!
[00:09.50]Oh!
[00:11.53]Thank you. Thank you very much.
[00:13.53]Yes, thank you.
[00:13.53]Come on!
[00:14.93]No, no, no.
[00:14.93]Come on up.
[00:16.67]Silly chap.
[00:20.77]Thank you.
[00:23.87]Sing for us, Mary Poppins!
[00:23.87]Sing! Sing! Sing for us!
[00:26.50]No. No, no, no.
[00:26.50]Come on. Have a go.
[00:28.50]No. I haven't sung in years.
[00:29.97]Sing for us, Marry Poppins.
[00:29.97]Please! Please!
[00:32.93]Oh, no. I couldn't possibly.
[00:34.97]D-flat major.
[00:49.43]Uncle Gutenberg was a bookworm
[00:52.50]And he lived on Charing Cross
[00:54.73]The memory of his volumes brings a smile
[00:58.90]He would read me lots of stories
[01:01.60]When he wasn't on the sauce
[01:03.77]Now I'd like to share the wisdom
[01:06.47]Of my favorite bibliophile
[01:10.00]He said
[01:13.43]A cover is not the book so open it up and take a look
[01:18.70]'Cause under the covers one discovers that the king may be a crook
[01:22.73]Chapter titles are like signs
[01:24.70]And if you read between the lines
[01:26.90]You'll find your first impression was mistook
[01:30.47]For a cover is nice but a cover is not the book
[01:33.90]Ta-ru-ra-lee ta-ra-ta-ta-ta, ta- ru-ra-lee ta-ra-ta-ta-ta
[01:37.00]Mary Poppins, could you give us an example?
[01:39.63]Certainly.
[01:39.63]Mm!
[01:42.77]Nellie Rubina was made of wood but what could not be seen
[01:45.90]Was though her trunk up top was barren
[01:48.07]Well, her roots were lush and green
[01:50.30]So, in spring when Mr. Hick'ry
[01:52.30]Saw her blossoms bloomin' there
[01:53.97]He took root despite her bark
[01:55.97]And now there's seedlings everywhere
[01:58.30]Which proves a cover is not the book so open it up and take a look
[02:03.00]'Cause under the covers one discovers that the king may be a crook
[02:07.00]Chapter titles are like signs
[02:09.03]And if you read between the lines
[02:11.00]You'll find your first impression was mistook
[02:15.53]For a cover is nice but a cover is not the book
[02:17.73]Shall we do the one about the wealthy widow?
[02:20.77]Oh, by all means.
[02:20.77]Always loved that one.
[02:23.30]Oh, go on, then.
[02:24.60]Lady Hyacinth Macaw
[02:26.70]Brought all her treasures to a reef
[02:28.80]Where she only wore a smile
[02:28.80]Plus two feathers and a leaf
[02:32.90]So no one tried to rob her 'cause she barely wore a stitch
[02:36.73]For when you're in your birthday suit
[02:38.57]There ain't much there to show you're rich
[02:40.63]Oh, a cover is not the book so open it up and take a look
[02:44.53]'Cause under the covers one discovers that the king may be a crook
[02:48.53]Ta-ru-ra-lee ta-ru-ra-la, ta- ru-ra-lee ta-ra-ta-ta
[02:52.83]You'll find your first impression was mistook Ya-da-da-da
[02:56.60]For a cover is nice but a cover is not the book
[02:59.87]Give us the one about the dirty rascal, why don't you?
[03:03.00]Isn't that one a bit long?
[03:03.00]Well, the quicker you're into it,
[03:05.33]the quicker you're out of it.
[03:11.63]Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme
[03:13.70]There was a castle with a king hiding in a wing
[03:16.03]'Cause he never went to school to learn a single thing
[03:18.60]He had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords
[03:20.60]But on the inside he was sad, egad
[03:22.77]Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words
[03:25.70]Though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's
[03:28.37]So the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation
[03:30.60]"To the missus and the messers, the more or lessers
[03:32.93]Bring me all the land's professors", then she went to the hairdressers
[03:35.33]And they came from the east and they came from the south
[03:37.80]From each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth
[03:40.30]But the king couldn't learn, so each professor met their fate
[03:42.67]For the queen ha...........
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