Chords for Noel Coward - Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans

_ _ The song [F] I am now going to sing you was written during the war years as a satire directed [Db] against a small [Bb] minority of excessive humanitarians, who, in my opinion, were taking a rather too tolerant view of our enemies.
It is called, _ Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. _ _
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[D] _ _ [Cm] _ [Gb] _ [Bb] _ [Dbm] _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] Don't let's be [Eb] beastly to the [Bb] Germans, _ [Eb] now our victory [Ebm] is [Bb] ultimately won.
[E] Let [F] us treat them very kindly, [Gm] as we would a valued friend.
[D] We might send them out some [C] bishops [F] as a form of lease and lend.
_ [Bb] _ Let's be sweet to them [Eb] and day by day repeat to [Dm] them [E] that sterilization [Dm] simply isn't done. _
[A] _ [Dm] Let's sweetly [D] sympathize again [Eb] and help the scum [Gm] to rise again, [Bb] but [C] don't [F] let's be [Bb] beastly to [Eb] the [Bb]
Huns.
_ We must be kind _ and with an open [F] mind.
We must endeavor [Bb] to find a way [D] _ [Bb] [Cm] to let the Germans [Gb] know [Bb] that now the war [D] is [Gm] over, [Cm] they are not the ones who'll have to [F] pay.
_ _ [Dm] We must be [Gm] sweet [F] and [Gm] tactful and [F] discreet, and now they've [C] suffered [Fm] defeat, we mustn't [C] let them feel upset [Eb] or ever get the feeling that [D] we're [Dm] cross with them or [G] hate them.
[C] [D] Our [Cm] future [C] policy [F] must be to reinstate them.
[Bb] Don't let's be [F] beastly to the [Bb] Germans, _ [Eb] for they're [Ebm] civilized when all is [Bb] said and done.
[E] _ [F] Though they gave us [Dm] science, culture, [Gm] art and music to access, they [C] also gave us two world [F] wars and Dr.
Rudolf Hess.
[Bb] _ Let's be meek to [Eb] them and turn the other cheek to them and try to [F] arouse their [Bb] latent [Dm] sense of fun.
[A] _ _ [Bb] Let's give them [D] full our parity [Eb] and treat the rats with [Db] charity, [Bb] but [C] don't [F] let's be beastly [Bb] to the [G] _
[F] Huns.
Don't [Eb] let's be beastly to the Germans.
[Bb] _ [Eb] You can't deprive [Ebm] a gangster of [Bb] his gun.
[E] _ [F] Though they've been a little naughty [Gm] to the Czechs and Poles and Dutch, I [D] can't believe [C] those countries [Cm] really mind it [F] very much.
[Bb] Let's be free with them and [Eb] share the [Cm] BBC [Dm] with them.
[C] We mustn't prevent [Bb] them basking in [F] the sun.
[Dm] _
[A] _ [F] [Bb] Let's soften [D] their defeat again [Eb] and build their [G] bloody fleet again, [Bb] but [C] don't [F] let's be beastly [Bb] to the [Eb] _
[Bb] _ Huns. _ _ _ _ _